Md Zahir Ahmed, Oli Ahmed, Aibao Zhou, Sang Hanbin et al.
The world is experiencing pandemic of the COVID-19 now, a RNA virus that spread out from Wuhan, China. Two countries, China first and later Italy, have gone to full lock down due to rapid spread of this virus. Till to date, no epidemiological data on mental health problems due to outbreak of the COV...
Simon Gilbody, Paula Whitty, Jeremy Grimshaw, Ruth Thomas
CONTEXT: Depression is commonly encountered in primary care settings yet is often missed or suboptimally managed. A number of organizational and educational strategies to improve management of depression have been proposed. The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of these strategies have n...
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...
Keith Owen Yeates, Joseph W. Luria, Henry M. Bartkowski, Jerome Rusin et al.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the incidence and neuropsychological, behavioral, and neuroimaging correlates of postconcussive symptoms (PCS) in children with mild closed head injuries (CHI). DESIGN: 26 Children with mild CHI and 8 of their uninjured siblings, from 8 to 15 years old, were recruited prospecti...
Danuta Wasserman, Vladimir Carli, Miriam Iosue, Afzal Javed et al.
INTRODUCTION: Suicide is a global mental health problem for people of all ages. While rates of suicide in children and adolescents are reported as lower than those in older populations worldwide, they represent the third leading cause of death in 15-19-year-olds. The rates are higher among boys than...
Konstantinos Ν. Fountoulakis, Grigorios N. Karakatsoulis, Seri Abraham, Kristina Adorjan et al.
Introduction There are few published empirical data on the effects of COVID‐19 on mental health, and until now, there is no large international study. Material and methods During the COVID-19 pandemic, an online questionnaire gathered data from 55,589 participants from 40 countries (64.85% females a...
Mohammed A. Mamun, Md. Sharif Hossain, Mark D. Griffiths
Abstract Common mental health problems are regarded as public health concerns and can contribute to risky behaviors such as suicide among university students in extreme cases. However, there is a lack of studies concerning such issues in Bangladesh. The present study aimed to fill this knowledge gap...
Mark J. D. Jordans, Anne Kaufman, Natassia Brenman, Ramesh P. Adhikari et al.
BACKGROUND: Globally, suicide is an important cause of mortality. In low- and middle income settings, it is difficult to find unequivocal data to establish suicide rates. The objective of this review is to synthesize the reporting of suicide incidence in six south Asian countries. METHODS: We conduc...
Mark D. Griffiths, Mohammed A. Mamun
reasons for suicide pacts among couples is among young couples whose parents refuse to let the couple get married (Milin & Turgay, 1990; Part et al., 2013; Pridmore & Reddy, 2010). Globally, the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is of concern. While existing health facilities are priorit...
Rafia Tasnim, Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Safaet Hossain Sujan, Md. Tajuddin Sikder et al.
Highlights • Bangladeshi student suicidal ideation was assessed during the COVID-19 outbreak.• The prevalence estimate of suicidal ideation was 12.8%.• Potential protective factors were being male, regular exercise, and good studies.• Potential risk related to sleep, cigarette smoking, and prior/fam...
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 ...
M. A. M. Chowdhury, HelalUddin Ahmed, MohammadDidar Hossain, Afzal Aftab et al.
Background Depression is the most common comorbid psychiatric disorder in people who die by suicide and 39% of global suicides occur in the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region. The aim of this systematic review was to identify, for countries of this region, first the prevalence of...
Saidur Rahman Mashreky, Fazlur Rahman, Aminur Rahman
This study set out to explore the epidemiology of suicide in Bangladesh. A cross-sectional study was carried out during 2003 (January to December). This encompassed a population of 819,429 of all age-groups and sexes. Data was collected by face-to-face interviews at a household level. Suicide was fo...
Rezaul Haque, Naimul Islam, Maidul Islam, Md Manjurul Ahsan
Social networks are essential resources to obtain information about people’s opinions and feelings towards various issues as they share their views with their friends and family. Suicidal ideation detection via online social network analysis has emerged as an essential research topic with significan...
Veena Raleigh
OBJECTIVES: To examine suicide rates and trends in people of Indian subcontinent, east African and Caribbean origin using the latest mortality data available for England and Wales. To compare suicide rates in these groups with the baseline and target rates for suicide in the Health of the Nation str...