Mohammad Didar Hossain, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Waziul Alam Chowdhury, Louis Niessen et al.
BACKGROUND: Mental disorders constitute a major public health problem globally with higher burden in low and middle-income countries. In Bangladesh, systematically-collected data on mental disorders are scarce and this leaves the extent of the problem not so well defined. We reviewed the literature ...
Mohammad Didar Hossain, Helal Uddin Ahmed, MM Jalal Uddin, Waziul Alam Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a group of complex neurodevelopmental disorders. The prevalence of ASD in many South Asian countries is still unknown. The aim of this study was to systematically review available epidemiological studies of ASD in this region to identify gaps in our cu...
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...
Nazmun Nahar Nuri, Malabika Sarker, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Mohammad Didar Hossain et al.
BACKGROUND: Health systems in Bangladesh are not fully organized to provide optimal care services to patients with mental health problems. There is both a lack of resources and a disproportional distribution of the available resources. To design an equitable health system and plan interventions to i...
F. M. Yasir Hasib, Md. Sirazul Islam, Tridip Das, Eaftekhar Ahmed Rana et al.
BACKGROUND: Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is an important viral disease causing significant economic losses in commercial livestock production. In mid-2019, an outbreak of LSD has been reported in cattle population from different parts of Bangladesh including Chattogram division. A cross-sectional survei...
A K M Helal Morshed, Salauddin Al Azad, Md. Abdur Rashid Mia, Mohammad Fahim Uddin et al.
The HER2-positive patients occupy ~ 30% of the total breast cancer patients globally where no prevalent drugs are available to mitigate the frequent metastasis clinically except lapatinib and neratinib. This scarcity reinforced researchers' quest for new medications where natural substances are sign...
AM Selim Reza, AHM Feroz, SM Nurul Islam, Md. Nazmul Karim et al.
Background: Suicide is a public health problem too often neglected by researchers, health policy makers and the medical profession. In the year 2000, approximately one million people died of suicide which represents a global mortality rate of 16 per 100,000. According to WHO estimates for the year 2...
Md. Abdur Razzaque, Mohammad Helal Uddin Ahmed, Choong Seon Hong, Sungwon Lee
Md. Abdullah Al Mashud, Md. Moinuzzaman, Md. Shamim Hossain, Sabbir Ahmed et al.
. According to the agar disc diffusion method, AgNPs had the largest inhibition zone of 17.67 ± 0.577 mm, while aqueous extract had 5.67 ± 0.5777 mm, indicating that AgNPs had antibacterial activity. This study on AgNPs might assist with managing multidrug resistant pathogenic bacteria and be a poss...
Faruq Alam, Rubina Hossain, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Mohammad Tariqul Alam et al.
Bangladesh is a densely populated emerging country in South Asia. Since its harsh independence war, it has suffered from repeated floods and other natural and man-inflicted disasters. Internal migration from rural areas to the urban centres has increased crowdedness, pollution and social conflicts. ...
Anika Jabin, Mohammad Fahim Uddin, Salauddin Al Azad, Ashfaque Rahman et al.
HCV is a hepatotropic RNA virus recognized for its frequent virulence and fatality worldwide. Despite many vaccine development programs underway, researchers are on a quest for natural bioactive compounds due to their multivalent efficiencies against viral infections, considering which the current r...
Abdullah H Baqui, Emma Williams, S El-Arifeen, Jennifer A. Applegate et al.
Objectives Community-based maternal and newborn intervention packages have been shown to reduce neonatal mortality in resource-constrained settings. This analysis uses data from a large community-based cluster-randomized trial to assess the impact of a community-based package on cause-specific neona...
Md Faruq Alam, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Mohammad Tariqul Alam, Mekhala Sarkar et al.
OBJECTIVE To determine the community prevalence of psychiatric disorders in adult population and describe the prevalence by age, men-women, urban-rural strata. METHODS A nationwide household survey was conducted in 2019 where adults aged 18 years and above were selected by a multicentric, stratified...
Md Rubel, Alam Chowdhury, Mohammad Helal Uddin, M Ahmed et al.
In order to protect the quality of the environment and human health, freshwater assets are tremendously important in various ways. To ensure the freshwater resources in the Chittagong region of Bangladesh, we have studied the water quality parameters of Kaptai and Foy’s Lake. This research has done ...
Mohammad Helal Uddin Ahmed, Md. Abdur Razzaque, Choong Seon Hong
Md. Mohibul Hasan, Md. Helal Uddin, Md Jakiul Islam, Shema Biswas et al.
Thiamethoxam is a broad-spectrum pesticide used in Bangladesh to protect crops from pests. In several ways, this pesticide ends up in aquatic ecosystems. Researchers have detected its existence in waterbodies. However, the harmful effects on non-target aquatic residents are not well studied and repo...
Alvin Kuowei Tay, Mohammad Abdul Awal Miah, Sanjida Khan, Mohammed Mohsin et al.
Background: Studies of scalable psychological interventions in humanitarian setting are usually carried out when the acute emergency has stabilized. We report the first evaluation of an evidence-based group psychological intervention, Group Integrative Adapt Therapy (IAT-G), during the emergency pha...
Kamrun Nahar Koly, Enryka Christopher, Shahriar Ahmed, Cleo Baskin et al.
Bangladesh is a lower-middle-income country with a high burden of mental health conditions and inadequate health systems. Prior research in similar settings has found that training physicians in mental health literacy can contribute to reducing the mental health treatment gap and strengthening the m...
Nazmun Nahar Nuri, Malabika Sarker, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Mohammad Didar Hossain et al.
BACKGROUND: A person's perception of health service quality depends on his or her expectations and priorities. If the perception of care is good, then it eventually enhances future health service utilization, adherence to treatment and desired outcomes. Understanding a patient's perspective is key f...
MM Jalal Uddin, Md. Tariqul Alam, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Niaz Mohammad Khan et al.
Background: Severe mental illness like schizophrenia has far-reaching consequence for both patients and caregivers and their relatives and they also experience feeling of loss and grief. They are confronted with uncertainty and emotion of shame, guilt and anger like the patients they feel stigmatize...