Table 4.

Stress levels using visual analog scale among postgraduate students

Stress level	Mean±SD
Students feared freezing of their registration	7.01±1.69
Failure to perform approval by the ethical committee as a result of the pandemic	7.29±1.42
Failure in obtaining institutional reviewer board permission as a result of the pandemic	6.30±1.11
Failure to collect data for conducting thesis work because of a pandemic situation	8.99±0.98
Failure in meeting one’s supervisor directly as a result of restrictions imposed due to the pandemic	7.76±2.12
Fear related to course extension due to the inability to complete the thesis work in time-bound manner	8.97±1.43

SD: Standard deviation