Md. Sabbir Hossain, Md. Fakrul Islam, Prosenjit Basak Arka, Mahfuzer Rohman et al.
Background: Children in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) receive a staggering number of antibiotic prescriptions, many of which are inappropriate. We aimed to explore the proportion of antibiotic prescriptions from qualified sources of children under five who had a fever/cough in the two week...
Fahmida Tofail, M Munirul Islam, Fahmida Akter, Shekufeh Zonji et al.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate an integrated, low-cost, facility-based group intervention designed to promote child care, boost maternal mental-wellbeing, reduce harsh discipline, and improve children's health, nutrition, and early development. METHODS: In Dhaka, 30 neighborhood clusters of a low-income ur...
Sufia Islam, Nafisa Tanjia, Amal K. Mitra, Afjal Hossain et al.
Food safety remains a critical issue with outbreaks of foodborne illness. The knowledge gap of food safety and improper hygienic practices of food handlers are the key factors for the transmission of foodborne diseases. This study was conducted to investigate the level of food safety knowledge and p...
Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Syed Moshfiqur Rahman, Jane Fisher, Anisur Rahman et al.
Background: Although sustainable development goals mandate for quality early childhood development (ECD) interventions for children <8 years, little occurs for children <3 years, especially in urban settings in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). Our primary objective was to measure the effect ...
Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Fahmida Tofail, Syeda Fardina Mehrin, Jena Hamadani
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Previously, in 30 Bangladeshi villages, 2 groups of children with iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) and nonanemic (NA) iron sufficiency aged 6 to 24 months participated in 2 parallel cluster randomized controlled trials of the effect of psychosocial stimulation on neurodevelopm...
Maisha Majid Mukta, Md. Jamal Hossain, Mousumi Akter, Badhan Banik et al.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the pharmacological efficacy of 3 functional foods (Water spinach, Wood apple, and Linseed) against doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity and oxidative stress in rat models. Methods: Twenty-five Wistar Albino rats (male and female) were equally class...
Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Fahmida Tofail, Hasan Mahmud Sujan, Shams El Arifeen et al.
BACKGROUND: Education is one of the most important human capitals. Investment in education at early age returns best. A lot of factors influence children's educational achievement. Studies in developed countries well established the relation of school achievement with its associated variables. But i...
Barbhuiya Ma, Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Hakim Mm, Rahman Sm
A cross sectional study was conducted in 14 selected villages of Gazipur Thana with the aim to find the prevalence of home deliveries and ante natal care coverage. All those females who delivered in the recent past (within last three months) from the selected villages were the study population Data ...
ASM Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, L. Hossain, Gobinda Banik, Abu Sayeed et al.
BACKGROUND: Infection prevention and control (IPC) is a critical component of delivering safe, effective and high-quality healthcare services, and eliminating avoidable healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in health facilities, predominantly in population-dense settings such as Bangladesh. AIM: O...
A Nahar, C Y Jamal, R Refat, T Chowdhury et al.
Febrile neutropenia (FN) is a frequently occurring treatment-related complication with significant morbidity and mortality for childhood acute leukemia. Early diagnosis and assessment of severity are essential steps for early comprehensive treatment to reduce FN-related morbidity and mortality. Biom...
Sabine Braat, Leila M Larson, J. A. Simpson, Mohammed Imrul Hasan et al.
<ns3:p> <ns3:bold>Background</ns3:bold> : The Benefits and Risks of Iron interventionS in Children (BRISC) trial will evaluate the impact of universal supplementation with iron supplements or iron-containing multiple micronutrient powders (MNPs) compared with placebo given for 3 months on child deve...
Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Bharati Roy, Nur‐E Salveen, Mohammad Imrul Hasan et al.
BACKGROUND: There is sufficient evidence that psychosocial stimulation (PS) benefits children's neurocognitive behavior, however, there is no information on how it works when delivered through an Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) platform for poor rural population in developing countries. The object...
Md. Sabbir Hossain, Talha Sheikh Ahmed, N. Sultana, Muhammad Abdul Baker Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: Malaria is one of the most prominent illnesses affecting children, ranking as one of the key development concerns for many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There is not much information available on the use of anti-malarial drugs in LMICs in children under five. The study aimed ...
Mohammed Abdus Salam, Wasif Ali Khan, Ujjwal Dhar, Anne Ronan et al.
Editor—Hossain et al conclude that vitamin A along with standard antibiotic reduces the severity of acute shigellosis and that vitamin A supplementation should be added to the standard treatment for acute shigellosis.1 We disagree with those conclusions. The benefit of vitamin A as adjuvant treat...
Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Jannatul Ferdousi, Manaj Kumar Biswas, Nageeb Mahfuz et al.
Patients' satisfaction plays an important role to attract patients for health services. It has not been closely monitored in physiotherapy; limited studies exist in this area of allied health services. The objective of the study was to determine the level of satisfaction of patients at the governmen...