Hashima E Nasreen, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Yvonne Forsell, Maigun Edhborg
BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined the associated factors of antepartum depressive and anxiety symptoms (ADS and AAS) in low-income countries, yet the World Health Organization identifies depressive disorders as the second leading cause of global disease burden by 2020. There is a paucity of rese...
Masuma Akter Khanam, Peter Kim Streatfield, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Chengxuan Qiu et al.
Data on multimorbidity among the elderly people in Bangladesh are lacking. This paper reports the prevalence and distribution patterns of multimorbidity among the elderly people in rural Bangladesh. This cross-sectional study was conducted among persons aged ≥60 years in Matlab, Bangladesh. Informat...
Hashima E Nasreen, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Yvonne Forsell, Maigun Edhborg
BACKGROUND: There is a high prevalence of antepartum depression and low birth weight (LBW) in Bangladesh. In high- and low-income countries, prior evidence linking maternal depressive and anxiety symptoms with infant LBW is conflicting. There is no research on the association between maternal mental...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Göran Tomson, Max Petzold, Zarina Nahar Kabir
OBJECTIVE: To study the health-seeking behaviour of elderly members (aged > 60 years) of households in rural Bangladesh, to ascertain how their behaviour differs from that of younger people (aged 20-59 years) living in the same household and to explore the determinants of health-seeking behaviour. M...
Maigun Edhborg, Hashima E Nasreen, Zarina Nahar Kabir
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of depressive and anxiety symptoms on maternal bonding to the infant 2-3 months postpartum and the influence of the mother's bonding to the infant during pregnancy and to her own caregiver during her childhood on maternal bonding 2-3 months pos...
Jan Nilsson, Avni Rana, Zarina Nahar Kabir
The objective of this article is to identify determinants of quality of life (QoL) and investigate their association with individual- and community-level social capital among older people in rural Bangladesh. A cross-sectional study of 1,135 elderly persons (aged >/= 60 years) was conducted in a rur...
Hashima E Nasreen, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Yvonne Forsell, Maigun Edhborg
Background Evidence linking maternal depressive symptoms with infant's growth and development in low-income countries is inadequate and conflicting. This study investigated the independent effect of maternal perinatal depressive symptoms on infant's growth and motor development in rural Bangladesh. ...
Zarina Nahar Kabir, Tamanna Ferdous, Tommy Cederholm, Masuma Akter Khanam et al.
Abstract Objective In stating the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations aims to halve malnutrition around the world by 2015. Nutritional status of the elderly population in low-income countries is seldom focused upon. The present study aimed to evaluate the magnitude of malnutrition among...
Zarina Nahar Kabir, Tamanna Ferdous, Tommy Cederholm, Masuma Akter Khanam et al.
ObjectiveIn stating the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations aims to halve malnutrition around the world by 2015. Nutritional status of the elderly population in low-income countries is seldom focused upon. The present study aimed to evaluate the magnitude of malnutrition among an elderl...
Zarina Nahar Kabir, Carol Tishelman, Hedda Agüero‐Torres, Rajiv Chowdhury et al.
The study aims to (i) describe regional variation and gender differences in health status of older people (60 years and older) in Bangladesh, indicated by self-reported health problems and functional ability; (ii) explore influence of socio-economic factors on health status of older people. In a cro...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Max Petzold, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Göran Tomson
It is now well recognised that regular microcredit intervention is not enough to effectively reach the ultra poor in rural Bangladesh, in fact it actively excludes them for structural reasons. A grants-based integrated intervention was developed (with health inputs to mitigate the income-erosion eff...
Tamanna Ferdous, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Åke Wåhlin, Kim Streatfield et al.
Abstract Objective To investigate the associations and relative impact of illness, socio-economic and social indicators for nutritional status among elderly persons in rural Bangladesh. Design A multidisciplinary, cross-sectional study employing home interviews to collect information on demographic,...
Zarina Nahar Kabir, Hashima E Nasreen, Maigun Edhborg
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV), a gross violation of human rights, ranges widely across the world with higher prevalence reported in low- and middle-income countries. Evidence related mainly to physical health shows that IPV has both direct and indirect impacts on wome...
Masuma Akter Khanam, Chengxuan Qiu, Wietze Lindeboom, Peter Kim Streatfield et al.
OBJECTIVES: To describe the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) among older persons in rural Bangladesh, to investigate whether the prevalence varies by age, sex, literacy, marital status, nutritional status and socio-economic status, and to assess the impact of MetS on survival. METHODS: Th...
Zarina Nahar Kabir, Agneta Herlitz
The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is a brief global instrument used to assess cognitive abilities in the elderly, requiring literacy as a prerequisite. Such a precondition is impractical for populations with widespread illiteracy. The present study aimed to adapt the MMSE for the cultural con...