Frances E. Aboud, Sadika Akhter
OBJECTIVES: The goal of this study was to determine if a responsive stimulation and feeding intervention improved developmental and nutritional outcomes compared with a regular information-based parenting program. The hypothesis was that mothers in the intervention would exhibit better parenting ski...
Frances E. Aboud, Sohana Shafique, Sadika Akhter
Responsive complementary feeding, whereby the mother feeds her child in response to child cues and psychomotor abilities, is low in some countries and likely contributes to malnutrition. Interventions are needed to evaluate whether promoting responsive feeding would add any benefit. Using a cluster-...
Farhana Safa, Afifa Anjum, Sahadat Hossain, Tonima Islam Trisa et al.
Background The most recent global pandemic of COVID-19 has been creating multidimensional damages, including a detrimental impact on the mental health status of individuals. Medical students, a vulnerable cross-section of the population, may have perceived a myriad of psychological stressors during ...
Sadika Akhter, Shannon Rutherford, Feroza Akhter Kumkum, David Bromwich et al.
BACKGROUND: Traditionally, women in Bangladesh stayed at home in their role as daughter, wife, or mother. In the 1980s, economic reforms created a job market for poor, uneducated rural women in the ready-made garment industry, mostly located in urban areas. This increased participation in paid work ...
Anna C. Moore, Sadika Akhter, Frances E. Aboud
It is now widely recognized that malnutrition can partly be attributed to caregiver-child interaction during feeding episodes. Current conceptual frameworks emphasize the importance of responsiveness (including active and social behaviour), psychomotor abilities of the child to self-feed, and a non-...
Sadika Akhter, Shannon Rutherford, Cordia Chu
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh has made significant progress in reducing maternal mortality. Many factors have contributed to this; one is the socio-economic development of the country. The ready-made garment industry is at the forefront of this development creating employment for many women. However, the w...
Frances E. Aboud, Anna C. Moore, Sadika Akhter
Responsive complementary feeding, whereby the mother feeds her child in response to child cues of hunger state and psychomotor abilities, is a problem in some countries, and likely contributes to malnutrition. Interventions are needed to evaluate whether promoting responsive feeding would add any be...
Sadika Akhter, Abul Fazal Md Salahuddin, M. Iqbal, ABMA Malek et al.
It is the advantage to outsourcing of supply chains that opened up a new door of economic emancipation for Bangladesh. The readymade garments (RMG) of Bangladesh emerge as value chain member of European, USA cloth merchants and retails. Many of them are found economic justification in outsourcing pr...
Jeroen van der Heijden, Nell Gray, Beverly Stringer, Aminur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Kamrangirchar and Hazaribagh are the largest slum areas in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In 2013, Médecins Sans Frontières initiated an urban healthcare programme in these areas providing services for factory workers and responding to the sexual and reproductive health needs of young women. Little ...
Anna C. Moore, Sadika Akhter, Frances E. Aboud
Sadika Akhter, Shannon Rutherford, Cordia Chu
INTRODUCTION: Despite the improved safety of the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh since 2013, other workplace health and safety issues in the ready-made garment industry continue, especially violence towards female workers. This article examines this violence as well as the social norms and...
Erin Hunter, Jennifer A. Callaghan‐Koru, Abdullah Al Mahmud, Rashed Shah et al.
Bangladesh has one of the world's highest rates of low birth weight along with prevalent traditional care practices that leave newborns highly vulnerable to hypothermia, infection, and early death. We conducted formative research to explore existing newborn care practices in rural Bangladesh with an...
Shahriar Mohammad, Akhter Sadika, Ismail Hossain, Aminul Haque et al.
To uncover the antioxidant and free radical scavenging activity, five different extracts ofTerminalia arjuna bark were examined. In the present study, the free radical scavenging potential of five extracts of the bark of Terminalia arjuna was assessed by measuring its capability for s...
Sania Ashraf, Fosiul Alam Nizame, Mahfuza Islam, Notan Chandra Dutta et al.
We conducted a nonrandomized trial of strategies to promote soapy water for handwashing in rural Bangladesh and measured uptake. We enrolled households with children < 3 years for three progressively intensive study arms: promotion of soapy water ( N = 120), soapy water promotion plus handwashing...
Md. Ismail Hossain, Farzana Anwar Sharmin, Sadika Akhter, Mohiuddin Ahmed Bhuiyan et al.
This attempt is made to address the phytoconstituents, free radical scavenging activity and brine shrimp lethality bioassay of five different extracts of Asparagus racemosus roots. Preliminary phytochemical examination of the crude extracts of Asparagus racemosus root disclosed the existence of diff...