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Impact of River Bank Erosion on Mental Health and Coping Capacity in Bangladesh Cover

Impact of River Bank Erosion on Mental Health and Coping Capacity in Bangladesh

Global Psychiatry
Volume 2 (2019): Issue 2 (November 2019)
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|Jun 2019
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Table 1

Socio-demographic information of the respondents of the two sites

CriterionAffectedNon-affected
Frequency (n)Percentage (%)Frequency (n)Percentage (%)
GenderMale2244.02652.0
Female2856.02448.0
Daily income5 USD and above24.01224.0
2–5 dollar/day3672.03060.0
Less than 2 USD/day1224.0816.0
Table 2

Mean COPE score of the riverbank erosion affected and non-affected group

ConditionMeanSDp
Affected55.868.00.225
Non-affected64.047.2

[i] * p > 0.05 (for a two-tailed test)

Table 3

Mental health wellbeing of the affected and non-affected people measured by GHQ

ConditionMeanSDp
Affected27.723.40.03
Non-affected29.424.4

[i] * p > 0.05 (for a two-tailed test)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gp-2019-0011 | Journal eISSN: 2451-4950
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Language: English
Page range: 195 - 200
Submitted on: Apr 8, 2019
Accepted on: May 23, 2019
Published on: Jun 14, 2019
Published by: Sciendo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
Riverbank erosion,
mental health,
coping strategy,
Bangladesh,
resilience
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Clinical medicine,
Psychiatry, psychotherapy,
Psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy,
Paediatric and juvenile psychatry and psychotherapy,
Social sciences,
Psychology,
Psychology, other

© 2019 SarzamArobi, Jamiun Naher, Tanjir Rashid Soron, published by Sciendo
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