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Prevalence of Depression, Anxiety and Stress among University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study


Jaspreet Singh | Ritika Verma | Gurbinder Kaur | Jasvir Kaur | Sandeep Singh



Jaspreet Singh | Ritika Verma | Gurbinder Kaur | Jasvir Kaur | Sandeep Singh "Prevalence of Depression, Anxiety and Stress among University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-8 | Issue-3, June 2024, pp.829-832, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd65011.pdf

Introduction: Mental health disorders are one of the leading causes of disability followed by depression disorder. The main objective of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence of Depression, anxiety and stress among university students.Methods: This study was conducted among 200 students from various departments of RIMT University between the age group of 18 to 25 (67 male and 133 female). Depression Anxiety Stress Scale - Short Form (DASS-21) was used to measure the level of depression, anxiety and stress.Results: It was observed that there is more anxiety among female students (79.70%) as compared to male students (68.66%). The findings suggested that there is more depression among female students (75.19%) as compared to male students (62.69%). It was observed that there is more stress among female students (51.88%) as compared to male students (28.36%). Overall female students are more affected than male students according to scores of DASS-21 sub-scale.Conclusion: The present study concludes that there is more prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress among both among male and female students. Hence, Teachers and parents need to be more aware of the multiple issues leading to stress among students to learn ways to handle and guide students.

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IJTSRD65011
Volume-8 | Issue-3, June 2024
829-832
IJTSRD | www.ijtsrd.com | E-ISSN 2456-6470
Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development Journal. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)

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