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Introduction
As my recent and past experiences, I am interested in public health including psychosocial behavior and mental health, epidemiology and demography.
Current institution
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October 2020 - October 2021
September 2018 - December 2018
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Desk job with frequent field visits and reporting to the Programme Manager
November 2017 - December 2017
Position
- Data Enumerator
Description
- Attend training and workshops, function as a data enumerator for the project in the assigned area, collect data from targeted respondents, rapport and relationship building with stakeholders, participate in debriefing session and keep in updated to field team leader.
Education
September 2019 - August 2021
June 2017 - August 2018
January 2012 - May 2017
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Publications (40)
Background
Access to modern family planning is critical for improving maternal and child health outcomes, yet it remains severely lacking in low- and middle-income countries, including Bangladesh. Maternal healthcare utilization during and after pregnancy is vital for promoting postpartum family planning. This study examined the effects of maternal...
Objectives:Child undernutrition among under 5 aged children is a prevalent global issue, especially in Bangladesh. This study aimed to explore relationships of household environmental conditions (HECs) with child under-nutrition in Bangladesh, with a specific focus on rural-urban differences.
Design:We analysed children’s data from the 2017/18 Bang...
Child marriage negatively affects women’s socio-economic empowerment, particularly in education and employment. This study aimed to explore women’ perspectives on the timing of their marriages, considering their educational and employment status at the time. It also sought to identify factors influencing early married women’s perception of their ma...
Background
Under-5 deaths in urban slum communities are often unnoticed in many cases. However, previous surveys reported a high burden of mortality. Therefore, we presented the distribution of the causes of death of under-5 children in selected urban slum areas in Bangladesh.
Methods
Since October 2020, the Urban Health and Demographic Surveillan...
The World Health Organization (WHO) established a theoretical active ageing policy framework to formalize policies and programs on growing population ageing around the world, which have been used in this study to assess the level of active ageing and its determinant factors. It also identifies the relationship and association of active ageing with...
Background
The stagnation and relatively low use of modern contraceptives are ongoing public health concerns in Bangladesh and other low- and middle-income countries. Although a cultural preference for sons may be linked to the current use of contraceptives, this linkage has not been adequately explored in the Bangladesh context. We investigated th...
Background
This study examined the neonatal mortality for newborn of women who delivered by caesarean section or vaginally using a prospective cohort.
Methods
A total of 6,989 live births registered from 2016 to 2018, were followed for neonatal survival from the selected slums of Dhaka (North and South) and Gazipur city corporations, where icddr,b...
Background: HIV/AIDS remains a global health concern and understanding the knowledge and attitudes of at-risk populations is crucial for effective prevention and management. This study examines the knowledge and attitudes related to HIV/AIDS among reproductive-aged women in Bangladesh and explores associated factors.
Methods: The study analyzed dat...
Background: Cesarean section (CS) rates have risen dramatically worldwide, with a majority of the countries exceeding the World Health Organization's (WHO) preferred rate of 10-15%. However, disparities exist, with evidence suggesting that socioeconomic disadvantage and geographic location play significant roles. Despite this, comprehensive estimat...
Background
Child undernutrition, a persistent global concern, is particularly prevalent in Bangladesh. Little is known about the relationship between household environmental conditions (HEC) and child nutrition. This study aimed to explore how HEC is associated with undernutrition among under-5 children in Bangladesh, with a specific focus on rural...
Background: Women in urban slums were particularly susceptible due to a lack of knowledge about sexual and reproductive health (SRH), and abortion was frequently performed. In this study, reproductive-aged women who have had abortions and lived in urban slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh, are evaluated for their level of SRHR knowledge and its predictors....
Background
Globally, major emphasis has been placed on understanding the physiological consequences of losing a pregnancy. However, its mental health impact on socially disadvantaged women remains unexplored. To further inform the field the present study investigated the prevalence and factors associated with the development of depressive symptoms...
Background: Child marriage negatively affects women's socioeconomic empowerment,
Background
Early marriage is highly prevalent in Bangladesh. It is linked with a range of adverse outcomes, including maternal and child mortality. However, research on regional variations and factors associated with early marriage is scarce in Bangladesh. This study aimed to explore the geographical variations and predictors of early marriage in B...
Background
This study examined the survival of new-born up to neonatal period for those who delivered caesarean vs. vaginal using a prospective cohort.
Methods
A total of 6,989 births registered during 2016–2018 and were followed for neonatal survival from the selected slums of Dhaka (North & South) and Gazipur city corporations, where icddr,b mai...
Objectives:
To examine the levels and socio-demographic differentials of: (a) reported COVID-like symptoms; and (b) seroprevalence data matched with COVID-like symptoms.
Methods:
Survey data of reported COVID-like symptoms and seroprevalence were assessed by Roche Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunoassay. Survey data of 10,050 individuals for COVID-...
Objectives
To explore relationship among perceived stress regarding loneliness, interpersonal trust and institutional trust of expatriates during the early COVID-19 period (from 30th March to 30th May 2020).
Methods
Data from 21,439 expatriates were extracted from COVIDiSTRESS global survey. The outcome variable was perceived stress. The explanato...
Objectives:
The impact of the pandemic on sleeping problems in all age groups has been widely reported, but insomnia in post-menopausal women has been understudied worldwide. The study sought to determine the prevalence and associated factors for insomnia in post-menopausal women who were infected with COVID-19 in Bangladesh.
Material and methods...
Background
Sexual engagement before marriage (premarital sex) can influence child marriage; however, the evidence is scarce in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including Bangladesh. This study aimed to explore the association between premarital sex and child marriage among ever-married women aged 15-24 years.
Methods
We analysed data of e...
Background
Early marriage is highly prevalent in Bangladesh. It is linked with a range of adverse outcomes, including maternal and child mortality. However, research on regional variations and factors associated with early marriage is scarce in Bangladesh. This study aimed to explore the geographical variations and predictors of early marriage in B...
Background
Bangladesh has failed to meet the United Nations goal for reducing maternal mortality in the last decade. The high prevalence of unskilled birth attendant (UBA) delivery (47%) has resulted in negative consequences for the health of mothers and newborn babies in the country. Spatial variations in UBA delivery and its predictors are yet to...
Objectives: To explore the relationship of perceived stress (PSS) regarding loneliness (PLS) interpersonal (IPT) and institutional trust (IT) among the expatriates during the early COVID-19 period.
Methods: Using the COVIDiSTRESS global survey data for 21,439 expatriates, this study applied pairwise correlation, structural equation modelling (SEM)...
Methods:
Eight databases, PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, Embase, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library, Popline, and Maternity and Infant Care, were searched, covering the period of January 2000 to January 2022. Studies that had examined the association between SBI and any form of child mortality were included. The findings of the included studies were summ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has already had many consequences for social life. This paper focused on the early impact of COVID-19 pandemic on pandemic-period childbearing plan that was made before the onset of the pandemic. Data were collected by posting survey questionnaire on social networks in Bangladesh. A total of 384 Bangladeshi men and women of re...
Abstract
The fatigue and work performance of the seamen can be interlinked and crucial to assess which has alack in the Malaysian seafarer's profession. This study aims to determine the relationship between fatigue and work performance among Malaysian seafarers from the seafarer's characteristics. We conducted an online survey where 329 Malaysian s...
Objective: To examine the determinants of emergency contraceptive pill use in Bangladesh.
Methods: Data for this cross-sectional study came from 2017-2018 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. Characteristics of 906 reproductive age women who were potential candidates for using emergency contraceptive pill were analysed in this study. Data we...
Citation: Marzo, R.R.; Khanal, P.; Ahmad, A.; Rathore, F.A.; Chauhan, S.; Singh, A.; Shrestha, S.; AlRifai, A.; Lotfizadeh, M.; Younus, D.A.; et al.
Objective
To examine the determinants of emergency contraceptive pill use in Bangladesh.
Methods
Data for this cross-sectional study came from 2017-2018 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. Characteristics of 906 reproductive age women who were potential candidates for using emergency contraceptive pill were analysed in this study. Data were...
Aims: The combination of knowledge, attitudes and practices is an important psycho-behavioural mechanism in the disease-management strategies of HIV patients. This study reviews the global evidence of knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of HIV patients. Design: Systematic review. Data sources: Four databases-Pubmed, Scopus, Science Direct and...
Background
Mass vaccination campaigns have significantly reduced the COVID-19 burden. However, vaccine hesitancy has posed significant global concerns. The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics that influence perceptions of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy, acceptability, hesitancy and decision making to take vaccine among general adu...
Introduction
Misconception related to coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) have been spread out broadly and the the World Health Organization declared these as a major challenge to fight against the pandemic. This study aimed to assess COVID-19 related misconception among rural people in Bangladesh and associated socio-demographic and media related...
Introduction: Misconception about COVID-19 has been spread out broadly that the World Health Organization declared it as a major challenge in the fight against the disease. This study aimed to assess common misconceptions about COVID-19 among the rural people of Bangladesh and its associated socio-demographic and media related factors.
Methods: Dat...
Seafarer's job is mostly long durational, contact base, and tiring in nature that is correlated with their stress. We are exploring the level of stress among the Asian seafarers with the associated personal and professional factors in the COVID-19 pandemic using an online-based cross-sectional survey (n=95). The 5-Likert scale used in the stress sc...
Background: Active ageing policy concept can bring changes in existing strategies for the wellbeing of older
persons and their societal status. Studies on active ageing are necessary to identify the determinant factors with
their indicators for developing policies and programs regarding the population ageing. But there exists scarce of
studies for...
Background
The coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) is now a global concern because of its higher transmission capacity and associated adverse consequences including death. The reproductive number of coronavirus provides an estimate of the possible extent of the transmission. This study aims to provide a summary reproductive number of coronavirus based on avai...
Background
The coronavirus (COVID-19) is now a global concern because of its higher transmission capacity and associated adverse consequences including death. The reproductive number of COVID-19 provides an estimate on the possible extent of the transmission. This study aims to provide the average reproductive number of COVID-19 based on available...
Population ageing is a global issue that already experienced by many developed countries and recently developing countries. Due to increasing life expectancies, enhancement of medical and health facilities, modernization, Bangladesh, recently experiencing the rapid change in demographic transition, as well as the most common challenge, population a...
Questions
Questions (8)
Hello everyone,
My greetings to all the scholar.
Recently, I am conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis, that will evaluate the psychological factors affecting a certain behavior (for example impulsivity). Initial sorting found most of the papers estimated the effect size by structural equation modelling. There is a path analysis also found in several studies. For example, one paper showed the anxiety causes the impulsivity. The fact is, the whole thing was hypothesized first, then analyzed by structural equation model. In the model, the anxiety was mediated by some other factor and caused impulsivity. For example, please see the attached file.
Now, I need to extract the data from these types of papers where most of the cases were mediated or have direct and indirect effect on the dependent variable. To conduct a meta-analysis how can extract the data and information from these?
It would be very helpful if there is any detailed methods, example, references and guidelines on this problem.
Hello everyone,
I was analyzing the multiple indicator cluster survey (MICS) data round 6. Like DHS, it also used the two stage stratified sampling method. Previously, I used DHS data where the survey design was defined primarily in the stata using svyset command.
For DHS, the svyset command is-
svyset primary_sampling_unit, strata(stratification_used_in_sample_determination), weight(sampling_weight) vce(linearized) singleunit(missing)
In the MICS data I cannot decide which variable is stratification_used_in_sample_determination.
Please help me on that. It would be great if anyone have the exact code for svyset
Currently I am doing a meta paper, where the subgroup analysis results shows very high heterogeneity compared with the main pooled estimates. Queries in google make me confused when I found Subovita's study and commentary on that. But cochrane and other meta documents suggested that high heterogeneity can be addressed by subgroup analysis, meta regression....
Quite confusing and jeopardised. If anyone have answer, please share...
Hi everyone, currently one of my friend other co-authors have developed two papers to get published in open access high impact factor journals. But the APC creates main problem. Almost every high impact journal charges 1500 to 3000 USD which is really huge,,, in short, for them, it took about one year of their salary. Besides, i don't have fund for such APC. But the paper deserve such high impacted q1 journal (keywords: birth attendants, reproductive health, spatial analyses, Bangladesh.).
They asked me, whether there are any organisations that give funds for those worthy studies. I have no idea about it, so I am starting this discussion.
So, is there any scope for individual and independent researchers to get fund only for publication fees or APC?
On my project a set of questionnaire is developed. Three constructs of the questionnaire are using in different scaling methods. For variable 1, we are using dichotomous (true/false) scale where variable 2 is formulated using 5-likert scale ranging from 1 to 5, and for variable 3 using 5-likert scale ranging 0-4. Now, pilot study is conducted and sample data on the hand. My question is, chronbach alpha is enough to validate all the three variables and fulfill the assumption of psychometric analysis. If not, what should we have to do?
I have submitted my manuscript to PLOS one. After 5 days they gave me a correction before submit to reviewer.
In your Methods section, please provide additional information regarding the following:
1) If data was anonymised prior to access.
2) Whether the accessed databases are publicly available
I don't have any idea of data anonymisation. Could anyone please tell me about it and how can I solve the problem?
I am doing a prevalence study on HIV/AIDS patients. But I need to know the sample size using the single(one)-sample formula. I used 0.5 for the unknown but true proportion of the population, while the prevalence of HIV in my country is 0.4. I personally feel that the prevalence and proportion of true population same according to the context. In this case, is it possible to use the prevalence score as the proportion value? If yes, I need a reference in this regard or a short briefing will be enough.
One more confusion is according to the formula, proportion score 0.4 and 0.6 produce same sample size result. I know the mathematical base, but what is the contextual logic?
I am doing a project on HIV patients to explore their quality of life (WHOQOL-HIV-BREF) regarding 7 variables of which 3 variables are scale generated consisted of 18 items. As a prevalence study of an unknown proportion of the population, I wanted to use P=50%, z=95% at 5% margin of error. But someone suggests me to use a 10% margin of error.
I need a clear idea of this, when and why I have to change the margin of error.
