Jena Hamadani, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Andrew Baldi, Sheikh Jamal Hossain et al.
BACKGROUND: Stay-at-home orders (lockdowns) have been deployed globally to control COVID-19 transmission, and might impair economic conditions and mental health, and exacerbate risk of food insecurity and intimate partner violence. The effect of lockdowns in low-income and middle-income countries mu...
Jena Hamadani, Syeda Fardina Mehrin, Fahmida Tofail, Mohammad Imrul Hasan et al.
BACKGROUND: Poor development in young children in developing countries is a major problem. Child development experts are calling for interventions that aim to improve child development to be integrated into health services, but there are few robust evaluations of such programmes. Previous small Bang...
Edward A. Frongillo, Fahmida Tofail, Jena Hamadani, Andrea Warren et al.
When implementing interventions integrating nutrition, health, and early childhood development, evaluation studies of effectiveness that assess the intermediate and ultimate impacts on the four domains of food and nutrition, family care, health, and child development are needed. Such studies should ...
Syeda Fardina Mehrin, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Fahmida Tofail, Shamima Shiraji et al.
Background Over 250 million children globally do not reach their developmental potential. We tested whether integrating a group-based, early childhood parenting program into government healthcare clinics improved children’s development, growth, and behavior. Methods We conducted a cluster-randomized...
Syeda Fardina Mehrin, Jena Derakshani Hamadani, Nur‐E Salveen, Mohammed Imrul Hasan et al.
This paper describes the process of adapting an early childhood development programme, with proven effectiveness in Bangladesh, for integration into government health services in rural Bangladesh. Through a three-stage process, we adapted an evidence-based, home-visiting, programme (Reach-Up and Lea...
Katelin Swing Wilton, Katie Maeve Murphy, Ahsan Mahmud, Syful Azam et al.
OBJECTIVES: In 2019, >71 million children aged <5 had spent their entire lives in conflict-affected settings. Compounding adversities including violence, poverty, and displacement have immediate and long-term effects on early childhood development, health, behavior, and well-being. In response, adap...
Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Fahmida Tofail, Syeda Fardina Mehrin, Jena Hamadani
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Previously, in 30 Bangladeshi villages, 2 groups of children with iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) and nonanemic (NA) iron sufficiency aged 6 to 24 months participated in 2 parallel cluster randomized controlled trials of the effect of psychosocial stimulation on neurodevelopm...
Syeda Fardina Mehrin, Nur‐E Salveen, Masuma Kawsir, Sally Grantham‐McGregor et al.
AIMS: We evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of utilising government health supervisors to train and supervise primary health care workers (HWs) in community clinics to deliver parenting sessions as part of their usual duties. METHODS: We randomly allocated 16 unions in the Mymensing distric...
Syeda Fardina Mehrin, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Fahmida Tofail, Shamima Shiraji et al.
Background: Over 250 million children globally do not reach their developmental potential. We tested whether integrating a group-based, early childhood parenting programme into government healthcare clinics improved children’s development, growth, and behaviour.Methods: We conducted a cluster-random...
Syeda Fardina Mehrin, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Fahmida Tofail, Shamima Shiraji et al.
Abstract Background: Over 250 million children globally do not reach their developmental potential. We tested whether integrating a group-based, early childhood parenting programme into government healthcare clinics improved children’s development, growth, and behaviour. Methods: We conducted a clus...
Syeda Fardina Mehrin, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Fahmida Tofail, Shamima Shiraji et al.
Abstract Background: Over 250 million children globally do not reach their developmental potential. We tested whether integrating a group-based, early childhood parenting programme into government healthcare clinics improved children’s development, growth, and behaviour. Methods: We conducted a clus...
Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Tom Palmer, S M Mulk Uddin Tipu, Syeda Fardina Mehrin et al.
Background: This study presents results of a cost and cost-effectiveness analysis of two parenting interventions (group-based and pairs) integrated into primary health care centers in rural Bangladesh. Methods: A within-trial cost-effectiveness analysis was conducted for two trials of parenting inte...
Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Fahmida Tofail, M. I. Hasan, Syeda Fardina Mehrin et al.
BACKGROUND: Little is known about whether and to what extent gender differences affect the stimulation children receive at home, which is crucial to child development. The aim of this study was to document the differences, if any, in the quality of psychosocial stimulation boys and girls receive at ...
Shamima Shiraji, Syeda Fardina Mehrin, Most. Salma Akter, Md. Shakir Wahid et al.
S M Mulk Uddin Tipu, Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Shams El Arifeen, Syeda Fardina Mehrin et al.
BACKGROUND: Early childhood development (ECD) in low to middle-income nations has been a pressing concern for the last two to three decades. It is estimated that approximately 250 million children under the age of five are not reaching their full developmental potential due to factors such as povert...