Noor Ahmed Giasuddin, Nafia Farzana Chowdhury, Naoki Hashimoto, Daisuke Fujisawa et al.
Introduction The pattern of care seeking of psychiatric patients is important for service and policy issues. We conducted a study in 2008 in Bangladesh to find out the referral patterns, delays to reach mental health professional (MHP), diagnoses and treatment received before reaching psychiatric ca...
Noor Ahmed Giasuddin, Itzhak Levav, Gilad Gal
BACKGROUND: The shortage of specialized human resources in mental health in Bangladesh requires active recruitment of psychiatric residents. In addition, the involvement of positively inclined health personnel, for example, medical doctors, emerges as an immediate priority. AIM: To explore stigma am...
Naoki Hashimoto, Daisuke Fujisawa, Noor Ahmed Giasuddin, Basanth Kumar Kenchaiah et al.
INTRODUCTION: As mental health systems are still developing in many Asian countries, knowledge of the pathways to mental health care (MHC) in this region would be very important. AIMS: To clarify the pathways to MHC in 5 Asian countries. METHOD: A total of 50 new subjects attending each institution ...
S. M. Yasir Arafat, Noor Ahmed Giasuddin, Atiqul Haq Mazumder
S. M. Yasir Arafat, Fahad Hussain, Mir Susmita Zaman, Tamanna Tabassum et al.
Background: Identification of prior mental events of suicide attempts has immense importance in suicide prevention. However, it has not been studied in Bangladesh as there was no available psychometrically valid instrument measuring it. Objectives: We aimed to test the psychometric properties of the...
Noor Ahmed Giasuddin, Jhunu Shamsun Nahar, Nahid Mahjabin Morshed, Yatan Pal Singh Balhara et al.
A number of pharmacological approaches as well as psychological interventions are effective in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The present study was conducted to see the relative efficacy of treatment approaches. 30 diagnosed cases of OCD were taken and divided into two groups....
Faisol Talukdar, Abu Yusuf Fakir, Z. Hasan, TABM Muzaffar Goni Osmani et al.
Background: Cattles are often infected with different skin diseases but mostly without no serious consequences. In July 2019, District Livestock Officer of Chattogram reported an unknown skin disease in cattle which was spreading rapidly with casualty. Comparative studies and effective control of su...
Noor Ahmed Giasuddin, Shazadi Farha Diba
Bangladesh has only one mental hospital which is situated in Pabna district of the country. People from the nearby locality as well as from distant regions of the country come here for psychiatric service. Clinical records of all the children who attended the outpatient department of 'Mental Hospita...
Noor Ahmed Giasuddin, M. J. Hossain
Obsessive compulsive disorder is a common mental health problem. It is characterized by obsession and compulsion. Obsession can be defined as unwanted, intrusive, recurrent and persistent thoughts, images or impulses which are not voluntarily produced, but are experienced as events that invade a per...
Noor Ahmed Giasuddin, Jhunu Shamsun Nahar, Nahid Mahjabin Morshed, Yatan Pal Singh Balhara
Noor Ahmed Giasuddin, Syeda Ruksheda
Noor Ahmed Giasuddin, Itzhak Levav
BACKGROUND: The shortage of specialized human resources in mental health in Bangladesh requires active recruitment of psychiatric residents. In addition, the involvement of positively inclined health personnel, for example, medical doctors, emerges as an immediate priority.AIM: To explore stigma amo...
Mohammad Samir Hossain, Muhammad Irfan, Yatan Pal Singh Balhara, Noor Ahmed Giasuddin et al.
BACKGROUND: The Death Adjustment Hypothesis (DAH) postulates two key themes. Its first part postulates that death should not be considered the end of existence and the second part emphasizes that the belief in immortal pattern of human existence can only be adopted in a morally rich life with the at...
S. M. Yasir Arafat, Noor Ahmed Giasuddin
Noor Ahmed Giasuddin
On 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology detected in Wuhan City in Hubei Province of its territory. The Chinese authorities isolated a new type of coronavirus on 7 January 2020. The consequences of this viral infection were later termed...
Olena Zhabenko, Noor Ahmed Giasuddin
Noor Ahmed Giasuddin
Mohammad S. I. Mullick, Noor Ahmed Giasuddin
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Noor Ahmed Giasuddin, Jhunu Shamsun Nahar