Peter Hudson, Sheila Payne
The quality of life of the person confronting the end stages of their life may be severely compromised without the support of family caregivers. Indeed, most people requiring palliative care would not be able to fulfill their preferences, such as care at home, without significant family caregiver in...
Md. Mohsin Ali Shah, Srijony Ahmed, S. M. Yasir Arafat
BACKGROUND: Suicide is a global public health problem too often neglected by researchers and Bangladesh is not an exception. There is no suicide surveillance and nationwide study is yet to be conducted in the country. OBJECTIVES: This paper aimed to look into suicide based on newspaper reporting in ...
Kamaldeep Bhui, Michael King, Simon Dein, William F. O’Connor
Background: There is a growing evidence base for how people use religious and spiritual coping, and how coping patterns differ between ethnic groups.Aims: To describe what constitutes religious coping and compare patterns of religious coping across ethnic groups.Methods: In-depth inter-views were co...
Wanda Spurlock
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between spiritual well-being and caregiver burden in family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease. A descriptive, correlational research design was used, and a convenience sample of 150 caregivers was surveyed (71 African Americans, ...
Monir Moniruzzaman
The technology-driven demand for the extraction of human organs--mainly kidneys, but also liver lobes and single corneas--has created an illegal market in body parts. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, in this article I examine the body bazaar in Bangladesh: in particular, the process of selling organ...
Kaniz Gausia, Allisyn C. Moran, Mohammed Ali, David Ryder et al.
BACKGROUND: In developed countries, perinatal death is known to cause major emotional and social effects on mothers. However, little is known about these effects in low income countries which bear the brunt of perinatal mortality burden. This paper reports the impact of perinatal death on psychologi...
Odette Spruyt
The aim of this paper is to describe the palliative care experience of Bangladeshi patients and carers in the Tower Hamlets area in the east of London. Semi-structured interviews were carried out in Sylheti, the Bengali dialect of this community, with bereaved primary carers of 18 patients (10 male,...
S. M. Yasir Arafat, MA Mohit, Mohammad S. I. Mullick, Russell Kabir et al.
BACKGROUND: Suicide is an important, understudied public health problem in Bangladesh, where risk factors for suicide have not been investigated by case-control psychological autopsy study. AIMS: To identify the major risk factors for suicide in Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHODS: We designed a matched case...
Taranjit Singh, Richard Harding
BACKGROUND: The increasing incidence of cancer and chronic diseases in South Asia has created a growing public health and clinical need for palliative care in the region. As an emerging discipline with increasing coverage, palliative care must be guided by evidence. In order to appraise the state of...
A. S. Kraus, R. A. Spasoff, E. J. Beattie, David Holden et al.
As part of a study of long-term institutional care of the elderly, this report presents a comparison of the characteristics, health problems, and state of mind of 193 elderly applicants for such care (Group A) with those of 141 elderly persons living independently in the community (Group I). Group A...
Sumbleen Ali, Nazma Khatun, Abdul Khaleque, Ronald P. Rohner
Extensive cross-cultural evidence supports the conclusion that children and adults everywhere understand themselves to be cared about (accepted) or not cared about (rejected) by the people most important to them (e.g., parents) in four ways. These four ways include the perception of warmth/affection...
Kaniz Gausia, Robert E. J. Ryder, Mohammad Ali, Colleen Fisher et al.
Women in developing countries experience postnatal depression at rates that are comparable with or higher than those in developed countries. However, their personal experiences during pregnancy and childbirth have received little attention in relation to postnatal depression. In particular, the cont...
Afsar Kazerouni Parvin
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to explore first-generation Bangladeshi women's understandings and experiences of postnatal distress, and to describe coping strategies during the postnatal period. METHODS: This was a qualitative study using focus groups. Subjects were drawn from three exist...
Ronald J. Mancoske, Dale Standifer, Cathleen Cauley
This study examines the effectiveness of two types of social work counseling services offered to battered women, using a comparative treatment groups design. One group of 10 battered women received standardized crisis intervention servicesfollowed by eight sessions of counseling based on a grief res...
Shamsun Nahar, Atiya Rahman, Hashima E Nasreen
BACKGROUND: Studies on a limited scale in urban settings of Bangladesh report stillbirth rates that do not specifically provide information on the situation of underprivileged slum populations. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of, and risk factors associated with, stillbirth in a developin...