Mohammad Didar Hossain, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Waziul Alam Chowdhury, Louis Niessen et al.
BACKGROUND: Mental disorders constitute a major public health problem globally with higher burden in low and middle-income countries. In Bangladesh, systematically-collected data on mental disorders are scarce and this leaves the extent of the problem not so well defined. We reviewed the literature ...
Mohammad Didar Hossain, Helal Uddin Ahmed, MM Jalal Uddin, Waziul Alam Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a group of complex neurodevelopmental disorders. The prevalence of ASD in many South Asian countries is still unknown. The aim of this study was to systematically review available epidemiological studies of ASD in this region to identify gaps in our cu...
MM Jalal Uddin, Md. Tariqul Alam, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Niaz Mohammad Khan et al.
Background: Severe mental illness like schizophrenia has far-reaching consequence for both patients and caregivers and their relatives and they also experience feeling of loss and grief. They are confronted with uncertainty and emotion of shame, guilt and anger like the patients they feel stigmatize...
Md Mizanur Rahman Khan, Madhusudan Saha, Mohammad Arif Hasan Mamun, Karwan Salam et al.
Globus sensation is a subjective feeling of a lump or foreign body in the throat without interfering swallowing of food. It is a persistent and distressing sensation in throat. It affects about 6% of population. But cause of globus is still unknown. Exact aetiology of globus is considered to be mult...
Masud Rana Sarker, Muhammad Zillur Rahman Khan, Nasim Jahan, Mohammad Muntasir Maruf et al.
Mental health is the most neglected and stigmatized branch of medical science in Bangladesh. Attitudes towards psychiatry are an important determination for selection of the subject as career by the undergraduate medical students. The objective of this study was to determine the attitudes of undergr...
Nasim Jahan, Mohammad Muntasir Maruf, Md. Faruk Hossain, Md Waziul Alam Chowdhury et al.
Substance misuse is usually associated with poorer psychiatric medication adherence among mentally ill patients. Identifying proportion & predictors of medication adherence among patients with dual psychiatric and substance misuse problems is important because poor adherence is associated with r...