Effect of perceived risk, challenges & coping on anxiety and depression among frontline health workers during COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh

The selected public hospitals provided exclusive COVID-19 services during the study period through designated COVID-19 wards and assigned health professionals.

Addressing the issue of generalizability and availability of the data, these oldest and largest medical college hospitals were chosen purposively from a total of 37 public medical college hospitals in Bangladesh which are evenly distributed in eight administrative divisional headquarters throughout the country and initiated COVID-19 services since the emergence of epidemic in Bangladesh.Participants were enrolled from the duty registrars of the COVID-19 wards who had at least 15 days of work placement in situ and were willing to participate.