Farzana Saleh, Shirin Jahan Mumu, Ferdous Ara, Md Abdul Hafez et al.
BACKGROUND: Non-adherence to lifestyle modification among diabetic patients develops the short-term risks and the long-term complications as well as declines the quality of life. This study aimed to find out the association between non-adherence to self-care practices, medication and health related ...
Farzana Saleh, Shirin Jahan Mumu, Ferdous Ara, Housne Begum et al.
BACKGROUND: Levels of knowledge about diabetes mellitus (DM) among newly diagnosed diabetics in Bangladesh are unknown. This study assessed the relationship between knowledge and practices among newly diagnosed type 2 DM patients. METHODS: Newly diagnosed adults with type 2 diabetes (N = 508) were s...
Kiran Niraula, Brandon A. Kohrt, Meerjady Sabrina Flora, Narbada Thapa et al.
BACKGROUND: Diabetes is a growing health problem in South Asia. Despite an increasing number of studies exploring causal pathways between diabetes and depression in high-income countries (HIC), the pathway between the two disorders has received limited attention in low and middle-income countries (L...
Farzana Saleh, Ferdous Ara, Shirin Jahan Mumu, Md Abdul Hafez
BACKGROUND: The management of diabetes requires a fundamental change in the lifestyle of patients, and one of the important outcome criteria is the quality of life. We assessed the health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) and examined the factors associated with it in type 2 diabetes. METHODS: An ana...
Shirin Jahan Mumu, Liaquat Ali, Anthony Barnett, Dafna Merom
BACKGROUND: Feasible and cost-effective as well as population specific instruments for monitoring physical activity (PA) levels are needed for the management and prevention of non-communicable diseases. The WHO-endorsed Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) has been widely used in developing...
Md Shahjahan, Shirin Jahan Mumu, Afsana Afroz, Hasina Akhter Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: The role of male's participation in reproductive healthcare is now well-recognized. The present study investigated the role of men in some selected reproductive health issues, characterizing their involvement, including factors influencing their participation in reproductive healthcare s...
Raja Ram Dhungana, Puspa Thapa, Surya Devkota, Palash Chandra Banik et al.
BACKGROUND: As a low-income country, Nepal is experiencing cardiovascular diseases as an emerging health problem. However, studies are lacking on the risk factors of cardiovascular diseases in peri-urban communities; where the socio-demographical transition is in progress. Therefore, this study aime...
Shirin Jahan Mumu, Farzana Saleh, Ferdous Ara, Md Rabiul Haque et al.
BACKGROUND: Awareness regarding risk factors is a prerequisite for the prevention of diabetes in general population. However, there are great variations in the level of this awareness from population to population and this needs to be explored in different ethnic and social groups for designing appr...
Farzana Saleh, Shirin Jahan Mumu, Ferdous Ara, Liaquat Ali et al.
Prevention and management of obesity largely depends on patient motivation and education and these, in turn, can be greatly facilitated by adequate baseline data on the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of patients. The aim of this study is to assess KAP on obesity among Bangladeshi type 2 diab...
Shirin Jahan Mumu, Dafna Merom, Liaquat Ali, Paul Fahey et al.
BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has emerged as a major public health concern in Bangladesh. Diet is an established risk factor for CVD but a tool to assess dietary intake in Bangladesh is lacking. This study aimed to validate a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) using the 24-h dietary recal...
Raja Ram Dhungana, Mahesh Kumar Khanal, Ashok Pandey, Poshan Thapa et al.
BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment is effective for identifying whether people are at low or high risk of CVD events. It is also useful for determining the intensity of intervention. People with low risk of CVD can take more benefit by lifestyle modifications, whereas people at...
Farzana Saleh, Fadia Afnan, Ferdous Ara, Shirin Jahan Mumu et al.
Background: Diabetes education provided by physicians in Bangladesh has some limitations, and its impacts on self-management are unclear. These prompted the Diabetic Association of Bangladesh (BADAS) to train 100 diabetes educators to improve the diabetes self-care activities of patients and to pilo...
Shirin Jahan Mumu, Paul Fahey, Liaquat Ali, Aminur Rahman et al.
While the effect of weather and seasons on physical activity (PA) is well documented for leisure-time physical activities in western countries, scant information is available for developing countries where lifestyle PA is the major source of energy expenditure (EE). In Bangladesh, the traditional ca...
Kazi Nazira Sharmin, Nazmul Sarwar, Shirin Jahan Mumu, DR. Abu Taleb et al.
Postnatal depression (PND) has been a common depressive mental disorder among the mothers in a low-income country like Bangladesh where stunting, underweight and wasting are prevalent among infants. The present prospective cohort study was carried out among 297 non-depressed and 103 depressed mother...
Farzana Saleh, Shirin Jahan Mumu, Fadia Afnan, Liaquat Ali et al.
This study was undertaken to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of hypercholesterolemic type 2 diabetic subjects on dyslipidemia and to analyze the influence of some demographic and socioeconomic factors on the level of KAP.It was a descriptive cross-sectional survey. One hundred elev...