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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a major health crisis affecting several nations. Such widespread outbreaks are associated with adverse mental health consequences. Objective(s): To conduct a survey-based assessment of mental health among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Aimed at identifying severity levels of depression and anxiety, stressors related to the pandemic, and barriers students experienced in handling the pandemic-related stress. Method(s): An analytical cross-sectional study was chosen as the study design for this research to study the association between demographic social and mental health among medical students during the pandemic COVID-19. Result(s): The results of this study were collected by respondents through questionnaires as the respondents were needed to answer about 16 questions and the main question was asked mostly about their mental health condition during the pandemic COVID-19. 101 respondents participated in the study. Discussion(s): the impact of COVID-19 on mental health among medical students has been studied. Due to the long-lasting pandemic situation and numerous measures such as lockdown and stay-at-home orders, COVID-19 brings negative impacts on higher education of medical students, self and social isolation, disconnection from friends and teachers resulting in more medical students than ever experiencing feelings of helplessness, isolation, grief, anxiety and depression. The issue of mental health is not only relevant but crucial. Demand for health support services has increased exponentially as a result. Conclusion(s): In this study, severity levels of depression and anxiety, stressors related to the pandemic, and barriers students experienced in handling the pandemic-related stress have increased due to many factors such as social isolation, own health and the health of loved ones, financial difficulties, suicidal thoughts, depressive thoughts, class workload, changes in living environment, eating patterns and sleeping habits.Copyright © RJPT. All right reserved.
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Background: Coronavirus 2019 or CoVid-19 is a new strain of virus from the coronaviridae family which was first detected in Wuhan, China. CoVid-19 has been declared as a world pandemic with approximately 100,000 cases and 14,000 fatalities across 100 countries worldwide. Aim of the Study: The objective of this research is to assess the level of awareness, knowledge, and perception of CoVid-19 among students of university considering the recent outbreak. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted. Stratified random sampling was used as respondents were divided into medical and non-medical strata. Questionnaires were distributed to 300 students from 6 different faculties and the results were analyzed. Results: Our results indicated that gender, ethnicity, and type of courses do not hold statistical significance against the knowledge and perception of CoVid-19. There is a significant association though between ethnicity and awareness to CoVid-19 (p = 0.021) and between gender and awareness to CoVid-19 (p = 0.002). Conclusion: The outcome of this study proves our hypothesis that there is no significant association in the level of knowledge and perception towards CoVid-19 between the medical and non-medical students of the university.