Satyajit Kundu, Jhantu Bakchi, Md. Hasan Al Banna, Abu Sayeed et al.
In low-resource settings like Bangladesh, there is a dearth of research on the mental health of university students. This pilot study aimed to identify the prevalence of depressive symptoms, loneliness, and physical activities as well as the associated factors of depressive symptoms among graduate s...
M. Tasdik Hasan, Tasnim Anwar, Enryka Christopher, Sahadat Hossain et al.
This is the second of a two-part profile on mental healthcare in Bangladesh. It describes the state of mental health research in the country and presents a set of priorities for addressing improvements to the fundamental gaps in mental healthcare highlighted in part 1. Focus on building infrastructu...
Sadia Sultana, Abid Hasan Khan, Sahadat Hossain, Tauhidul Islam et al.
Background: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has created several challenges including financial burdens that may result in mental health conditions. This study was undertaken to gauge mental health difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic and gain an insight into wage earners' mental health. Method: T...
Md Mahbub Hossain, M. Tasdik Hasan, Abida Sultana, Farah Faizah
Md. Omar Faruk, Abid Hasan Khan, Kamal Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury, Sabiha Jahan et al.
Abstract Background Mental illness stigma is universally prevalent and a significant barrier to achieving global mental health goals. Mental illness stigma in Bangladesh has gained little attention despite its widespread impact on seeking mental health care in rural and urban areas. This study aimed...
Md. Abdur Rafi, M. Tasdik Hasan, Dewan Tasnia Azad, Syeda Fatema Alam et al.
BACKGROUND: During the catastrophic situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of the health care workers (HCWs) is the most crucial, and their absenteeism, whether due to inability or unwillingness, becomes a major concern for the national health system. Hence, the present study aimed to determin...
M. Tasdik Hasan, Sahadat Hossain, Farhana Safa, Afifa Anjum et al.
Objectives: In addition to risking their physical well-being, frontline physicians are enduring significant emotional burden both at work and home during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This study aims to investigate the levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms and to identify ass...
M. Tasdik Hasan, Sahadat Hossain, Rajat Das Gupta, Vivek Podder et al.
Md. Abdur Rafi, Md. Saiful Islam, M. Tasdik Hasan, Golam Hossain
BACKGROUND: Migraine is one of the main causes of long-term morbidity, and it is one of the major contributors of all types of headaches in worldwide. Despite its disruptive effect, it is frequently underdiagnosed and undertreated in Bangladesh. The aim of the present study was to determine the prev...
Kamrun Nahar Koly, Rehnuma Abdullah, Fahima Akter Shammi, Taslima Akter et al.
Since 2016, Promotion of Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Bangladesh (PHRPB) has been working to include people with psychosocial disabilities in their community-based inclusive development work, and to increase access to formal mental health care. Field visits were carried out to PHRPBD...
Md. Hasan Al Banna, Keith Brazendale, Md Shafiqul Islam Khan, Abu Sayeed et al.
OBJECTIVE Little is known about the relation between weight status and eating disorders symptomatology among Bangladeshi university students. Moreover, the sociocultural climate in Bangladesh has changed in ways that might increase young adults' vulnerability to eating disorder symptomatology. There...
Kamrun Nahar Koly, Jobaida Saba, Rasma Muzaffar, Rifath Binta Modasser et al.
Background: Bangladesh is a lower-middle-income country affected by a severe lack of mental health service availability due to a scarcity of mental health experts, limited mental health literacy, and community stigma. In other low and middle-income countries, the online provision of mental health ca...
Konstantinos Ν. Fountoulakis, Grigorios N. Karakatsoulis, Seri Abraham, Kristina Adorjan et al.
Introduction During the COVID-19 pandemic various degrees of lockdown were applied by countries around the world. It is considered that such measures have an adverse effect on mental health but the relationship of measure intensity with the mental health effect has not been thoroughly studied. Here ...
Christine Marie George, Shirajum Monira, Fatema Zohura, Elizabeth Thomas et al.
BACKGROUND: The Cholera Hospital-Based Intervention for 7 Days (CHoBI7) mobile health (mHealth) program was a cluster-randomized controlled trial of diarrhea patient households conducted in Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHODS: Patients were block-randomized to 3 arms: standard message on oral rehydration sol...
Sadia Sultana, Abid Hasan Khan, Sahadat Hossain, Adnan Ansar et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought not only the risk of infection but also unbearable mental health difficulties with the concern of educational loss among students. This study explored the adverse impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on Bangladeshi students’ mental health and detected potential influenci...