Mental Health Status Of Chittagong University Students

Abstract

The aim of the present research was to explore the mental health status of the students of Chittagong University. The study was designed to find out the various level of Hopelessness and Mental Health condition of the students. About 100 students from 10 different departments of Chittagong University were selected purposively from which 50 were males and 50 were females. To collect data two questionnaires were used. One of the questionnaires was used to know some personal information of the respondents and another one to measure Mental Health condition. To measure mental health condition, Bengali version of “GHQ-28” (Basu and Dasgupta 1996) and “Beck Hopelessness Scale”(Beck et al. 1974) were used. From the obtained results, it was found that about 24% students  had high level hopelessness symptoms,  1% student faced severe level of somatic problem, 4% students had high level of anxiety, 8% students had severe level of social functioning problem, 3% students had high level of depression and finally overall 8% students were suffering from Psychiatric problems.

The Chittagong Univ. J. B. Sci.,Vol. 7(1 &2):91-107, 2012.