Association between knowledge and depression at rising time of COVID-19 in Bangladesh

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It is well documented that raising a child with an intellectual disability negatively affects the mental health and marital relationships of the parents as they encounter additional social, psychological, financial, and physical burdens. But little is known about the phenomena from the context of Bangladesh. This study aimed to investigate the effect of having a child with an intellectual disability on marital satisfaction and the mental wellbeing of the parents. It assessed the depression and marital satisfaction of randomly selected 60 parents (both father and mother) having a child with an intellectual disability and compared with the same number of parents without a child of intellectual disability. It used an improvised Bangla version of the beck depression inventory (BDI-II) and a relationship assessment scale (RAS) to measure the severity of depression and the level of marital satisfaction among the participants. Most of the parents of children with intellectual disabilities suffer from moderate depression. Meanwhile, most of the parents of children without intellectual disabilities suffer from mild mood disturbance. Parents of children with intellectual disabilities suffer from a higher level of depression and have a higher level of marital satisfaction compared to the parents of children without intellectual disabilities in Bangladesh.

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confidence: 99%

Psychosocial impact of parenting children with intellectual disabilities in Bangladesh

Islam

Rahman²,

Akhtar

2022

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“…As older adults tend to vulnerable conditions due to the pandemic, identifying the effective ways to inform the essential preventive message can prevent the health threat [8]. As per the recommendation of international and national authorities, governments play an instrumental role in circulating the relevant essential messages to people to prevent coronavirus [6], [9]. Bangladesh's government is no exception and tries to disseminate messages in different ways by introducing remarkable prevention steps, enforcing healthcare facilities, closures educational institutions, offices, stores, hotels, libraries, and movie theaters [10].…”

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confidence: 99%

Communicating health and risk information among senior citizens in Bangladesh

Islam

Sizear²,

Akhtar³

et al. 2023

The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected human being in multiple ways all over the world. Senior citizens are more likely to get sick from COVID-19 compared to other age groups. Little is known about ways to deliver the messages to adult people to get the best outcome. We conducted a direct telephone/mobile phone-based cross-sectional survey among individuals who were aged >60 years old in Bangladesh. Verbal consent was taken and the snowball sampling method was used to reach the participants. This study showed that the most common sources of information about COVID-19 were family members, relatives, friends, and electronic media. Hence, 36.8% participants perceived that the media massages about COVID-19 were difficult to understand. Meanwhile, 53% participants could not understand the meanings news and information as those were presented using unknown terminologies. From the findings it can be concluded that the media messages should be communicated in a way that are context-specific and understandable, especially using more convenient terminology for better understanding for all levels of people.

“…A large number of employees in different types of organizations are working from home to avoid physical transmission. On 16 March 2020, all types of educational institutions have been closed for uncertainty in Bangladesh [13], [14]. Since onset of coronavirus pandemic, proper use of hand gloves, masks, sanitizers and face shields have increased exponentially along with its prices in local market [15].…”

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confidence: 99%

Knowledge and public health practices during lockdown towards COVID-19 in Bangladesh

Akhtar

Ahmed

Jahan

et al. 2021

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The study aimed to assess the role of having knowledge and essential hygiene practices to prevent coronavirus pandemic and to find out the relationship between people’s knowledge and good hygiene practices with socio-demographic variables during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic situation. In this study, data were collected from 248 respondents for cross-sectional study using voluntary response sampling from April, 30 2020 to May, 30 2020, during lockdown situation in Bangladesh. Descriptive statistics were done to calculate the frequencies and percentages by using Stata SE 14.2 (StataCorp). Chi-square was performed at the significance level of 5% to find the factors which were associated with knowledge about COVID-19. After knowing about COVID-19, 86.29% respondents had taken preventive measures and 71.37% respondents had agreed to stay at home. Among the respondents, 47.98% were involved in services and were positively associated with good general knowledge of preventive practices. Our present findings indicated significant relationship between good general knowledge and practice of general people towards COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh. The findings of the study are helpful for the researchers and the population to follow all good promotional practices for preventive measures against coronavirus.