Najmuj Sakib, A. K. M. Israfil Bhuiyan, Sahadat Hossain, Firoj Al‐Mamun et al.
Abstract The recently developed Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) is a seven-item uni-dimensional scale that assesses the severity of fears of COVID-19. Given the rapid increase of COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh, we aimed to translate and validate the FCV-19S in Bangla. The forward-backward translation...
A. K. M. Israfil Bhuiyan, Najmuj Sakib, Amir H. Pakpour, Mark D. Griffiths et al.
The incidence and mortality of the coronavirus-2019 disease (COVID-19) have increased dramatically around the world. The effects of COVID-19 pandemic are not limited to health, but also have a major impact on the social and economic aspects. Meanwhile, developing and less developed countries are arg...
Marta Kowal, Tao Coll‐Martín, Gözde İkizer, Jesper Rasmussen et al.
BACKGROUND: To limit the rapid spread of COVID-19, countries have asked their citizens to stay at home. As a result, demographic and cultural factors related to home life have become especially relevant to predict population well-being during isolation. This pre-registered worldwide study analyses t...
Deena Dimple Dsouza, Shalini Quadros, Zainab Juzer Hyderabadwala, Mohammed A. Mamun
Many Indian COVID-19 suicide cases are turning the press-media attention and flooding in the social media platforms although, no particular studies assessed the COVID-19 suicide causative factors to a large extent. Therefore, the present study presents 69 COVID-19 suicide cases (aged 19 to 65 years;...
Chuangshi Wang, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, Sumathy Rangarajan, Scott A. Lear et al.
AIMS: To investigate the association of estimated total daily sleep duration and daytime nap duration with deaths and major cardiovascular events. METHODS AND RESULTS: We estimated the durations of total daily sleep and daytime naps based on the amount of time in bed and self-reported napping time a...
Mohammed A. Mamun, Irfan Ullah
Highlights • Suicide increment during and afterwards a pandemic is highly common.• This study reports COVID-19 suicide cases in Pakistan for the first time.• Most of the suicides occur due to lockdown-related economic recession.• Fear of infection is the second suicide contributing factor.• Lockdown...
Sabina Yeasmin, Rajon Banik, Sorif Hossain, Md. Nazmul Hossain et al.
Highlights • Examined the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of Bangladeshi children.• Children were suffering from depression, anxiety, and sleeping disorder.• Estimates of moderate and severe mental disturbance were 19.3% and 7.2% respectively.• Children’s mental disturbance linked to parent’...
David P. Schmitt, Lidia Alcalay, Melissa Allensworth, Jüri Allïk et al.
As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completedthe RelationshipQuestionnaire(RQ), a self-reportmeasure of adult romanticattachment. Correlational analyses within each culture suggested that the Model of Self and the Model ...
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 (...
Lunde Nielsen, Karen Vagner Danielsen, T. I. A. Sørensen
Systematic literature search for epidemiological evidence for an association of short sleep with weight gain and eventual development of obesity provided 71 original studies and seven reviews of various subsets of these studies. We have summarized the evidence for such an association with particular...
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...
Daniel V. Caputo
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...
M. A. H. Akhand, Shuvendu Roy, Nazmul Siddique, Md Abdus Samad Kamal et al.
Human facial emotion recognition (FER) has attracted the attention of the research community for its promising applications. Mapping different facial expressions to the respective emotional states are the main task in FER. The classical FER consists of two major steps: feature extraction and emotion...
Kevan Wylie, Gail Knudson, Sharful Islam Khan, M. Bonierbale et al.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) standards of care for transsexual, transgender, and gender non-conforming people (version 7) represent international normative standards for clinical care for these populations. Standards for optimal individual clinical care are consi...