Prevalence of Depression, Anxiety and Stress

University education is considered a key strategy for effective human resource development, poverty alleviation, and socioeconomic development of a country. Sustainable human development will not be possible in a country for adverse impacts of university education due to severity of depression, anxiety and stress among students. From this point of view, the cross sectional study among university students can play vital role for future policy implications. This book is a cross sectional questionnaire survey study of depression, anxiety and stress among Varendra University students in Bangladesh. Significant association between academic performance and depression, anxiety, and stress score individually among Varendra University students are found. Because of being parent’s expectation, a noticeable numbers of respondents suffered from various dimension of depression, anxiety, and stress, respectively. There are also significant association among age, gender, and BMI with the corresponding depression, anxiety and stress score among the respondents.