Possible Controlling Measures of Panic Buying During COVID-19

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Enam Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, 1340 Bangladesh.
² Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, U.P. 226003 India.
³ School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine, and Social Care, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK.

S M Yasir Arafat et al. Int J Ment Health Addict. 2021.

. 2021;19(6):2289-2291.

doi: 10.1007/s11469-020-00320-1. Epub 2020 May 21.

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Enam Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, 1340 Bangladesh.
² Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, U.P. 226003 India.
³ School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine, and Social Care, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK.

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Conflict of InterestThe authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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