Najmuj Sakib, A. K. M. Israfil Bhuiyan, Sahadat Hossain, Firoj Al‐Mamun et al.
Abstract The recently developed Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) is a seven-item uni-dimensional scale that assesses the severity of fears of COVID-19. Given the rapid increase of COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh, we aimed to translate and validate the FCV-19S in Bangla. The forward-backward translation...
A. K. M. Israfil Bhuiyan, Najmuj Sakib, Amir H. Pakpour, Mark D. Griffiths et al.
The incidence and mortality of the coronavirus-2019 disease (COVID-19) have increased dramatically around the world. The effects of COVID-19 pandemic are not limited to health, but also have a major impact on the social and economic aspects. Meanwhile, developing and less developed countries are arg...
Mohammed A. Mamun, Najmuj Sakib, David Gozal, A. K. M. Israfil Bhuiyan et al.
BACKGROUND: As with other countries worldwide, lockdown measures during the COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh were sudden and unexpected, and have the capacity to elicit serious psychological consequences. The present study examined the psychological consequences of COVID-19 in Bangladesh during the l...
Chung‐Ying Lin, Wen‐Li Hou, Mohammed A. Mamun, José Aparecido Da Silva et al.
AIM: The threats of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have caused fears worldwide. The Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) was recently developed to assess the fear of COVID-19. Although many studies found that the FCV-19S is psychometrically sound, it is unclear whether the FCV-19S is invarian...
Ismail Hosen, Amir H. Pakpour, Najmuj Sakib, Nur Hussain et al.
Assessing individuals' knowledge and preventive behaviors towards the Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) is essential for the related public health surveillance strategies. Although some of the studies were conducted in Bangladesh, none of these studies considered the geographical distribution o...
Mohammed A. Mamun, Zainab Alimoradi, David Gozal, Md Dilshad Manzar et al.
The COVID-19 outbreak is associated with sleep problems and mental health issues among individuals. Therefore, there is a need to assess sleep efficiency during this tough period. Unfortunately, the commonly used instrument on insomnia severity-the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI)-has never been transl...
Óscar Lecuona, Chung‐Ying Lin, Dmitri Rozgonjuk, Tone M Norekvål et al.
The rapid spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to high levels of fear worldwide. Given that fear is an important factor in causing psychological distress and facilitating preventive behaviors, assessing the fear of COVID-19 is important. The seven-item Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FC...
Li Li, I‐Hua Chen, Mohammed A. Mamun, Firoj Al‐Mamun et al.
Abstract The popularity and advancement of smartphones generate a new phenomenon of smartphone addiction. To promote early identification of individuals at risk of smartphone addiction, healthcare providers could assess if an individual has nomophobia (i.e., anxiety and worry of having no smartphone...
Mark D. Griffiths, Amir H. Pakpour, Mohammed A. Mamun
While carrying out some pooled analyses on various datasets concerning the psychometric properties of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S; Ahorsu et al. 2020), we found some errors reported in the original publication of the Bangla version (Sakib et al. 2020). These errors do not materially change a...
Li Li, Mohammed A. Mamun, Firoj Al‐Mamun, Irfan Ullah et al.
Abstract The Internet Disorder Scale–Short Form (IDS9-SF) is a validated instrument assessing internet disorder which modified the internet gaming disorder criteria proposed in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). However, the relationships between ...
Chung‐Ying Lin, Mohammed A. Mamun, Firoj Al‐Mamun, Irfan Ullah et al.
BACKGROUND: Phubbing, a phenomenon of ignoring others in face-to-face conversations due to mobile phone use, can be assessed using a Phubbing Scale (PS). Recently, the PS has been shortened into an eight-item version, the PS-8. However, psychometric properties of the PS-8 among Iranian, Bangladeshi ...
Firoj Al‐Mamun, Nur Hussain, Najmuj Sakib, Ismail Hosen et al.
Although several studies have been conducted in Bangladesh regarding sleep problems during the COVID-19 pandemic, none have utilized a large nationwide sample or presented their findings based on nationwide geographical distribution. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to explore the total s...
Irfan Ullah, Muhammad Junaid Tahir, Sajjad Ali, Rabia Waseem et al.
Abstract The Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) assesses the fear of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and has been translated and validated into over 20 languages. The present study conducted confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and item response theory (IRT) analyses on the FCV-19S among a...
Amir H. Pakpour, Firoj Al‐Mamun, Ismail Hosen, Mark D. Griffiths et al.
This paper presents the dataset concerning knowledge, preventive behavior, psychological consequences, and suicidal behavior regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. Data were collected through an online based cross-sectional survey between April 1 and April 10 in 64 districts at the early sta...
Po‐Ching Huang, Hung-Ching Wu, Ji‐Kang Chen, Xavier C. C. Fung et al.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Low levels of physical activity (PA) are a global issue that contribute to worse health outcomes in the general population. PA avoidance and weight stigma may play a significant role in lower levels of PA. Therefore, the present study examined the (i) associations between percei...