Most. Zannatul Ferdous, Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Tajuddin Sikder, Abu Syed Md. Mosaddek et al.
In Bangladesh, an array of measures have been adopted to control the rapid spread of the COVID-19 epidemic. Such general population control measures could significantly influence perception, knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) towards COVID-19. Here, we assessed KAP towards COVID-19 immediatel...
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...
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...
Md. Asad Ullah, Abu Tayab Moin, Yusha Araf, Atiqur Rahman Bhuiyan et al.
Here, we examine the potential effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on future birth rates. This highly contagious disease originated in China, and rapidly spread worldwide, leading to extensive lockdown policies being implemented globally with the aim of containing the infection rates and its serious att...
Md. Estiar Rahman, Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Sajan Bishwas, Mst. Sabrina Moonajilin et al.
This study aimed to determine the prevalence of physical inactivity and sedentary behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic among Bangladeshi people. An online survey was conducted among 2,028 people over a period of 10 days on June, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic at a time that the number of newly ...
Mohammed A. Mamun, Nafisa Lira Huq, Zinat Fatima Papia, Sadia Tasfina et al.
Women living in disaster-prone areas are at risk of developing and suffering from mental health problems, such as depression. However, this issue has not been studied previously among village dwelling women in Bangladesh. Improved knowledge of post-disaster depression rates and its risk factors coul...
Mohammed A. Mamun, Jannatul Mawa Misti, Mark D. Griffiths, David Gozal
Md. Abdur Rafi, Mohammed A. Mamun, Kamrul Hsan, Moazzem Hossain et al.
Background: Recent trends suggest that university graduates seeking jobs are more susceptible to common mental disorders, such as depression, anxiety, or stress. But, the mental health issues among unemployed graduates has not been explored in Bangladesh yet. Aims: This study aimed to assess for the...
Most. Zannatul Ferdous, Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Tajuddin Sikder, Abu Syed Md. Mosaddek et al.
In Bangladesh, an array of measures have been adopted to control the rapid spread of the COVID-19 epidemic. Such general population control measures could significantly influence perception, knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) towards COVID-19. Here, we assessed KAP towards COVID-19 immediatel...
Kamrul Hsan, Md Mahfuz Hossain, Md. Shanjid Sarwar, Annelies Wilder‐Smith et al.
Rajon Banik, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Md. Tajuddin Sikder, David Gozal
Sharmin Jahan, Kazi Araf, Mark D. Griffiths, David Gozal et al.
Rajon Banik, Mahmudur Rahman, Md. Mahfuz Hossain, Md. Tajuddin Sikder et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic is now a global crisis and the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are in the most vulnerable situation. Lack of access to services that are considered critical and life-saving such as food, drinkable water, and shelter, together with limited access to health services are turning a...
Mohammad Jahid Hasan, Tamanna Tabassum, Mohiuddin Sharif, Mohammad Abdullah Saeed Khan et al.
BACKGROUND: Dengue fever shows a broad range of clinical presentations worldwide. Here we report on our clinical findings during the 2019 dengue outbreak in one of the largest tertiary care hospitals in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. METHODS: A total of 747 suspected dengue cases (553 confirmed a...
Sadia Tasnim, Farzana Mahzabin Auny, Yasseer Hassan, Robana Yesmin et al.
BACKGROUND: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is quite prevalent in low- and middle-income countries, and has been proposed to increase the risk of depression. There is only a prior study assessing antenatal depression among the subjects with GDM in the Bangladesh, which leads this study to be inv...