Kiran Shafiq Khan, Mohammed A. Mamun, Mark D. Griffiths, Irfan Ullah
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines mental health as the state of wellbeing in which an individual realizes their capabilities to combat with normal life stressors and work competencies in contributing to the belonged community, which is underpinned by six psychological elements comprising (...
Tom Foster, Kate Gillespie, Roy Mcclelland
BACKGROUND: The aim of this part of the Northern Ireland Suicide Study was to investigate the prevalence of DSM-III-R axis I (clinical syndrome) and axis II (personality) disorders among suicides (14 years and older) in Northern Ireland during a one-year period. METHOD: A psychological autopsy study...
Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Nazmul Hoque, Sheikh Mohammad Alif, Masudus Salehin et al.
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the personal, professional and social life of Australians with some people more impacted than others. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to identify factors associated with psychological distress, fear and coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austra...
S.M. Didar-Ul Islam, Md. Bodrud-Doza, Rafid Mahmud Khan, Md. Abidul Haque et al.
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has aggregated mental health sufferings throughout the entire world. Suicide completions are the extreme consequences of COVID-19 related psychological burdens, which was reported in many countries including Bangladesh. However, there are lack of study assessing COV...
Jay Joseph Van Bavel, Aleksandra Cichocka, Valerio Capraro, Hallgeir Sjåstad et al.
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public h...
Rajib Ahmed Faisal, Mary C. Jobe, Oli Ahmed, Tanima Sharker
The current COVID-19 pandemic has affected people of all ages across the world both physically and psychologically. Understanding COVID-19’s impact on university students’ mental health status in Bangladesh has been limited, yet is a necessary population to study, since they are particularly vulnera...
Md. Saiful Islam, Most. Zannatul Ferdous, Marc N. Potenza
Highlights • Bangladeshi people were surveyed about anxiety early during the COVID-19 pandemic.• Estimates of panic and generalized anxiety were 79.6%, and 37.3%, respectively.• Panic was linked to older age, higher education, and being married and with family.• Generalized anxiety was linked to bei...
Andrew Riley, Andrea Varner, Peter Ventevogel, M. M. Taimur Hasan et al.
The Rohingya of Myanmar are a severely persecuted minority who form one of the largest groups of stateless people; thousands of them reside in refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh. There has been little research into the mental health consequences of persecution, war, and other historical trauma...
Shaharior Rahman Razu, Tasnuva Yasmin, Taimia Binte Arif, Md. Shahin Islam et al.
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused increasing challenges for healthcare professionals globally. However, there is a dearth of information about these challenges in many developing countries, including Bangladesh. This study aims to explore the challenges faced by...
Mohammed A. Mamun, Najmuj Sakib, David Gozal, A. K. M. Israfil Bhuiyan et al.
BACKGROUND: As with other countries worldwide, lockdown measures during the COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh were sudden and unexpected, and have the capacity to elicit serious psychological consequences. The present study examined the psychological consequences of COVID-19 in Bangladesh during the l...
Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Safaet Hossain Sujan, Rafia Tasnim, Md. Tajuddin Sikder et al.
Mental health problems in students are considered a public health challenge. We assessed the prevalence of depression, anxiety, and stress (DAS) with the DASS-21, as well as associated factors, among university students in Bangladesh early in the COVID-19 outbreak. We hypothesized high levels of DAS...
SH Wild, Colin Fischbacher, Ashlei Brock, Clare Griffiths et al.
BACKGROUND: Differences in mortality by country of birth in England and Wales in people under 70 years of age have been demonstrated previously. Changes in age distribution of migrants and in migration patterns have occurred subsequently. METHODS: All-cause and circulatory disease mortality for peop...
Md. Hasan Al Banna, Abu Sayeed, Satyajit Kundu, Enryka Christopher et al.
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has imposed threats on both physical and mental health since its outbreak. This study aimed to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health among a representative sample of home-quarantined Bangladeshi adults. A cross-sectional design was used with an onl...
M. Anwar Hossain, Iqbal Kabir Jahid, K M Amran Hossain, Lori Maria Walton et al.
The study aims to determine the level of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) related to COVID-19 preventive health habits and perception of fear towards COVID-19 in subjects living in Bangladesh. DESIGN: Prospective, cross-sectional survey of (n = 2157) male and female subjects, 13-88 years of a...
Sultan Mahmud, Sorif Hossain, Abdul Muyeed, Md. Mynul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the health professionals who are at the frontline of this crisis have been facing extreme psychological disorders. This research aims to provide an overall scenario of the prevalence of depression, anxiety, stress, as well as insomnia and to inspect the chan...