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cord-346858-18q8rxzg	Hossain, Md. Tanvir	Social and electronic media exposure and generalized anxiety disorder among people during COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh: A preliminary observation	2020-09-11		.txt	text/plain	3462	171	51	Classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, the novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has spread to Bangladesh since early March of 2020, and people are getting daily updates from the social and electronic media. For this cross-sectional study, data were collected from 880 participants by a self-administered online-based questionnaire relating personal characteristics, self-rate health (SRH), SME, and EME with anxiety. The mental health burden of the COVID-19 infected patients and the healthcare professionals, fearing the persisting social prejudice and stigma generated from 'overexposure' to media 'misinformation,' forced some people to commit suicide [22] [23] [24] . At present, the level of anxiety generated from the exposure to social and electronic media during COVID-19 pandemic is not known in Bangladesh, while some other countries have addressed the issue vigorously [13, 18, 36] .	./cache/cord-346858-18q8rxzg.txt	./txt/cord-346858-18q8rxzg.txt