Wit Wichaidit, Shwapon Biswas, Farzana Begum, Farzana Yeasmin et al.
OBJECTIVE: The behavioural effect of large-scale handwashing promotion programmes has been infrequently evaluated, and variation in the effect over time has not been described. We assess the effect of a large-scale handwashing promotion programme on handwashing outcomes in a community setting in Dha...
Fatema Zohura, Sazzadul Islam Bhuyian, Shirajum Monira, Farzana Begum et al.
Household members of cholera patients are at a 100 times higher risk of cholera than the general population. Despite this risk, there are only a handful of studies that have investigated the handwashing practices among hospitalized diarrhea patients and their accompanying household members. To inves...
KM Saif‐Ur‐Rahman, Tahmina Parvin, Sazzadul Islam Bhuyian, Fatema Zohura et al.
Previous studies have demonstrated that household contacts of cholera patients are highly susceptible to cholera infections for a 7-day period after the presentation of the index patient in the hospital. However, there is no standard of care to prevent cholera transmission in this high-risk populati...
Md. Sazzadul Islam Bhuyian, Ronald Saxton, Khaled Hasan, Jahed Masud et al.
OBJECTIVE: The Cholera-Hospital-Based Intervention for 7-days (CHoBI7) mobile health (mHealth) program delivers mobile messages to diarrhoea patient households promoting water treatment and handwashing with soap. The randomised controlled trial (RCT) of the CHoBI7 mHealth program demonstrated this i...
Tahmina Parvin, Elizabeth Thomas, Md. Sazzadul Islam Bhuyian, Ismat Minhaj Uddin et al.
We investigated the environmental and individual-level risk factors for diarrheal disease among young children in slum areas of Dhaka, Bangladesh. A prospective cohort study was conducted among 884 children under 5 years of age. Caregiver reports were collected on sociodemographic factors and hygien...
Shwapon Biswas, Elizabeth Thomas, Jahed Masud, Fatema Zohura et al.
Poor food hygiene practices, child feces not being disposed of in a latrine, child mouthing of contaminated fomites, and poor hand hygiene of caregivers have been associated with diarrheal diseases, environmental enteropathy, and impaired growth in young children. Mobile health (mHealth) programs pr...
Shirajum Monira, Md. Sazzadul Islam Bhuyian, Tahmina Parvin, Ismat Minhaj Uddin et al.
OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to investigate potential risk factors for growth faltering among children under 5 years of age. METHOD: We conducted a prospective cohort study of 553 children under 5 years from diarrhoea patient households in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh. Height and weight meas...
Fatema Zohura, Md. Sazzadul Islam Bhuyian, Ronald Saxton, Tahmina Parvin et al.
OBJECTIVE: The Cholera-Hospital-Based-Intervention-for-7-days (CHoBI7) is a water treatment and handwashing with soap intervention for diarrhoea patients and their household members which is initially delivered in a healthcare facility setting. This study evaluated the effectiveness of CHoBI7 progra...
Ismat Minhaj Uddin, Kelly Endres, Tahmina Parvin, Md. Sazzadul Islam Bhuyian et al.
In this prospective cohort study, we explored individual- and household-level risk factors associated with diarrheal diseases among 251 children younger than 5 years in slum areas of urban Dhaka, Bangladesh. During the 3-month study period, diarrhea surveillance was conducted monthly, and spot check...
Tahmina Parvin, Kelly Endres, M. Tasdik Hasan, Ismat Minhaj Uddin et al.
The objective of this study was to examine the association between dietary diversity and child growth among children 6 to 23 months of age in urban slums of Bangladesh. This prospective cohort study enrolled 192 participants 6 to 23 months of age in Dhaka, Bangladesh. To collect dietary intake infor...
Shirajum Monira, Fatema Zohura, Md. Sazzadul Islam Bhuyian, Tahmina Parvin et al.
The aim of this study was to identify the exposure pathways of fecal pathogens for a pediatric population living in the urban slums of Bangladesh. A total of 252 soil, food, surface, and hand rinse samples were collected from the pilot households with children less than 5 years of age. All samples w...
Jahed Masud, Md. Sazzadul Islam Bhuyian, Shwapon Biswas, Fatema Zohura et al.
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of the Cholera-Hospital-Based-Intervention-for-7-days (CHoBI7) handwashing with soap and water treatment mobile health (mHealth) program on diarrhoeal disease knowledge among diarrhoea patients and their household members in urban Dha...
Tahmina Parvin, Ismat Minhaj Uddin, Md. Sazzadul Islam Bhuyian, Ronald Saxton et al.
OBJECTIVE: To characterise childhood mouthing and handling behaviours and to assess the association between hand-to-object and object-to-mouth contacts and diarrhoea prevalence in young children in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHODS: A prospective cohort study was conducted among 494 children under 5 ...
Nusrat Najnin, Karin Leder, Andrew Forbes, Leanne Unicomb et al.
To explore the consistency in impact evaluation based on reported diarrhea, we compared diarrhea data collected through two different surveys and with observed diarrhea-associated hospitalization for children aged ≤ 5 years from a non-blinded cluster-randomized trial conducted over 2 years in urban ...