Sheela Sundarasen, Karuthan Chinna, Kamilah Kamaludin, Mohammad Nurunnabi et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown has taken the world by storm. This study examines its impact on the anxiety level of university students in Malaysia during the peak of the crisis and the pertinent characteristics affecting their anxiety. A cross-sectional online survey, using Zung’s self-rati...
Heba Bakr Khoshaim, Areej Alsukayt, Karuthan Chinna, Mohammad Nurunnabi et al.
COVID-19 is the worst pandemic of this millennium, and it is considered to be the "public enemy number one." This catastrophe has changed the way we live in the blink of an eye. Not only has it threatened our existence and health status, but the damage associated with it could equally affect our eco...
Karuthan Chinna, Sheela Sundarasen, Heba Bakr Khoshaim, Kamilah Kamaludin et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures have taken a toll on every level of the society, worldwide. This study examines their psychological impact on university students in Asia. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted between April and May 2020 in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Ban...
Gul Muhammad Baloch, Sheela Sundarasen, Karuthan Chinna, Mohammad Nurunnabi et al.
Background As of the present, the twenty-first century is experiencing what may be one of its most devastating events, in respect to infected and dead people by the virus. Now known to the world as COVID-19, the devastating disease of what has become a pandemic started its spread from Wuhan, China a...
Kamilah Kamaludin, Karuthan Chinna, Sheela Sundarasen, Heba Bakr Khoshaim et al.
This study examined how university students in Malaysia coped with the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions on movement (also known as MCO). A total of 983 students participated in a survey conducted online between April 20 and May 24, 2020. The psychological impact was mea...
Mohammad Nurunnabi, Syed Far Abid Hossain, Karuthan Chinna, Sheela Sundarasen et al.
<ns4:p> <ns4:bold>Background:</ns4:bold> COVID-19 has severely affected university students everywhere in the world. Due to fear of infection, government and local authorities in China immediately closed academic institutions and tried to find survival techniques to cope with market turbulence. COVI...
Gul Muhammad Baloch, Kamilah Kamaludin, Karuthan Chinna, Sheela Sundarasen et al.
COVID-19 has speedily immersed the globe with 72+ million cases and 1.64 million deaths, in a span of around one year, disturbing and deteriorating almost every sphere of life. This study investigates how students in Pakistan have coped with the COVID-19. Zung's self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) was u...
Syed Far Abid Hossain, Mohammad Nurunnabi, Sheela Sundarasen, Karuthan Chinna et al.
Background The socio-psychological impact of COVID-19 has affected the whole world. Bangladesh, one of the most dangerous places as stated by WHO, was first infected at the beginning of March 2020, later than other countries. Bangladesh is now one of the 20 most affected countries in the world, but ...
Heba Bakr Khoshaim, Areej Alsukayt, Karuthan Chinna, Mohammad Nurunnabi et al.
The novel coronavirus is the worst pandemic of this century. Unfortunately, there is no clear solution for how to cope with such an epidemic. This study examines the coping strategies used by university students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. From March to May 2020, a questionnaire was administered...
Dhiraj Agarwal, Nik Sherina Hanafi, Soumya Chippagiri, Evelyn A Brakema et al.
This protocol describes a systematic scoping review of chronic respiratory disease surveys in low/middle-income countries (LMICs) undertaken as part of the Four Country ChrOnic Respiratory Disease (4CCORD) study within the National Institute for Health Research Global Health Research Unit on Respira...
Dhiraj Agarwal, Nik Sherina Hanafi, Ee Ming Khoo, Richard Parker et al.
BACKGROUND: Our previous scoping review revealed limitations and inconsistencies in population surveys of chronic respiratory disease. Informed by this review, we piloted a cross-sectional survey of adults in four South/South-East Asian low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) to assess survey feasib...
Tilakavati Karupaiah, Shah Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Juan Zhang, Naveen Kumar et al.
BACKGROUND: Rising childhood obesity rates in Asia are adding risk for the future adult burden of obesity and noncommunicable diseases. Weak policies across most Asian countries enable unrestricted marketing of obesogenic foods and beverages to children. Television is the common medium for food mark...
Dhiraj Agarwal, Deesha Ghorpade, Sundeep Salvi, Nik Sherina Hanafi et al.
<b>Background:</b> Chronic Respiratory Diseases (CRD) especially asthma and COPD are global health problems. Although the majority of deaths and disability from CRD occur in LMICs, the true burden of CRD is unclear. Widely used questionnaire-based tools have poor sensitivity and specificity, and the...
Tilakavati Karupaiah, Shah Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Juan Zhang, Naveen Kumar et al.
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Rising childhood obesity rates in Asia are adding risk for the future adult burden of obesity and noncommunicable diseases. Weak policies across most Asian countries enable unrestricted marketing of obesogenic foods and beverages to children. Television is the common ...
Gul Muhammad, Baloch Corresp, Sheela Sundarasen, Karuthan Chinna et al.
Background.As of the present, the twenty-first century is experiencing what may be one of its most devastating events, in respect to infected and dead people by the virus.Now known to the world as COVID-19, the devastating disease of what has become a pandemic started its spread from Wuhan, China an...