Wolfgang Stroebe, Michelle R. vanDellen, Georgios Abakoumkin, Edward P. Lemay et al.
During the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. conservative politicians and the media downplayed the risk of both contracting COVID-19 and the effectiveness of recommended health behaviors. Health behavior theories suggest perceived vulnerability to a health threat and perceived effectivene...
Yuki Yamada, Dominik‐Borna Ćepulić, Tao Coll‐Martín, Stéphane Debove et al.
This N = 173,426 social science dataset was collected through the collaborative COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey - an open science effort to improve understanding of the human experiences of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic between 30th March and 30th May, 2020. The dataset allows a cross-cultural study of psyc...
Santosh K. Chaturvedi, Shayanth Manche Gowda, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Fahad D. Alosaimi et al.
BACKGROUND: Anxiety disorder, one of the highly disabling, prevalent and common mental disorders, is known to be more prevalent in persons with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) than the general population, and the comorbid presence of anxiety disorders is known to have an impact on the diabetes outco...
Raphaël Cinotti, Julio Mijangos, Paolo Pelosi, Matthias Hænggi et al.
Purpose Neurocritical care patients receive prolonged invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV), but there is poor specific information in this high-risk population about the liberation strategies of invasive mechanical ventilation. Methods ENIO (NCT03400904) is an international, prospective observation...
Quique Bassat, Dianna M. Blau, Ikechukwu U. Ogbuanu, Solomon Samura et al.
Importance: The number of deaths of children younger than 5 years has been steadily decreasing worldwide, from more than 17 million annual deaths in the 1970s to an estimated 5.3 million in 2019 (with 2.8 million deaths occurring in those aged 1-59 months [53% of all deaths in children aged <5 years...
Oli Ahmed, Rajib Ahmed Faisal, Tanima Sharker, Sherman A. Lee et al.
The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) is among the first few published screening tools for assessing dysfunctional anxiety induced by the current COVID-19 pandemic. The CAS was translated into the Bangla language following the International Test Commission’s guidelines for this adaptation study and pl...
Viren Swami, Ulrich S. Tran, Stefan Stieger, Toivo Aavik et al.
The Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) is a widely used measure of a core facet of the positive body image construct. However, extant research concerning measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across a large number of nations remains limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset - w...
Rony Mia, Md. Salauddin Sk, Zubair Bin Sayed Oli, Taosif Ahmed et al.
The ultraviolet (UV) radiation is increasing in atmosphere due to the continuous increasing of global warming throughout the globe, which causes a negative impact on the human skin. The aim of this work is to produce an ecofriendly fabric having functional properties of UV protection & antimicrobial...
Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Patraporn Tungpunkom, Farhana Sultana et al.
BACKGROUND: The current pandemic of COVID-19 impacted the psychological wellbeing of populations globally. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to examine the extent and identify factors associated with psychological distress, fear of COVID-19 and coping. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study across 17 coun...
Oli Ahmed, Kazi Nur Hossain, Rumana Ferdousi Siddique, Mary C. Jobe
COVID-19 has impacted the world on a psychological level. With cases continuing to rise, understanding mental health and vulnerability factors are vital for researchers and mental health professionals to address. This study examines personality factors—using a person-centered approach compared to th...
Carrie A. Cowardin, Philip P. Ahern, Vanderlene L. Kung, Matthew C. Hibberd et al.
Undernutrition in children is a pressing global health problem, manifested in part by impaired linear growth (stunting). Current nutritional interventions have been largely ineffective in overcoming stunting, emphasizing the need to obtain better understanding of its underlying causes. Treating Bang...
M. Razu Ahmed, Khan Rubayet Rahaman, Aaron Kok, Quazi K. Hassan
The northeastern region of Bangladesh often experiences flash flooding during the pre-harvesting period of the boro rice crop, which is the major cereal crop in the country. In this study, our objective was to delineate the impact of the 2017 flash flood (that initiated on 27 March 2017) on boro ric...
Oli Ahmed, Md Zahir Ahmed, Sheikh Md. Abu Hena Mostafa Alim, Maqbool Khan et al.
Bangladesh is now experiencing the COVID-19 outbreak; however, there has been minimal focus on mental health over physical health problems during this pandemic in Bangladesh. The present study was conducted using self-rated scales on a sample of 500 Bangladeshi people to address this gap. Results su...
Md. Kamruzzaman, Shamim Ahmed, Akira Osawa
The article presents the first estimates of biomass and productivity for mangrove forests along the Oligohaline zone of the Sundarbans Reserve Forest (SRF), Bangladesh. This study was conducted overone year from March 2016 to April 2017. Stand structure, above and below-ground biomass changes, and l...
Jonathan A. Polonsky, Melissa Ivey, Md Khadimul Anam Mazhar, Ziaur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Unrest in Myanmar in August 2017 resulted in the movement of over 700,000 Rohingya refugees to overcrowded camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. A large outbreak of diphtheria subsequently began in this population. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Data were collected during mass vaccination campaigns (...