Shamsun Nahar
Biographic Data
| ID | 248718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shamsun Nahar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shamsun |
| FAMILY NAME | Nahar |
| SIGNATURE | NAHAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | King Khalid University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-1660-4824 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decolonizing the language of counseling and social work education and practice
Muslim masculinities in Bangladeshi and Malaysian Anglophone fiction: An Empirical Framework
Understanding the Covid-19 Impacts on Social Work Learning Through the Lens of Planned Behavior Theory
COVID-19 was a global pandemic that caused higher education to enter emergency distance learning. Students experienced a myriad of emotional and psychological stressors during this pandemic. While the demand for online learning has been steadily increasing, even in the field of social work, it has nonetheless lagged behind other disciplines due to concerns about limited interpersonal interactions. We attempted to understand students' intentions, …
Female teachers' experiences: Unraveling the nexus of gender violence, health, education, and cultural norms
Despite evidence about the importance of education and its role in bridging the gender gap, attitudes and behaviors that devalue women based on gender persist, with female teachers continually being victimized by gender violence. The current study's objective is to describe the lived experiences of Kenyan women teachers and how gender intersects with their well-being, including health, education, and societal norms, using social scripting theory.…
Women’s reproductive health in the aftermath of natural disasters in Bangladesh: Prospects for empowerment
In this study, the authors examine the effect of Cyclone Sidr in 2007 on selected aspects of women's reproductive decision-making in Bangladesh. We used Person in Environment theories to model the effect of cyclone Sidr on the reasons for non-contraception among women who did not want a child. The difference-in-difference approach was used as a research design using Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys of 2004 and 2011 to test a model of rea…
Associations of threat and deprivation-related childhood exposures with children’s mental health and flourishing: The moderating role of family resilience
The association of ACEs with physical and mental well-being is predominantly examined using a cumulative ACE score. However, less is known about how different dimensions of adversity (e.g., threat and deprivation) may uniquely predict children’s mental health and development. • Threat and deprivation dimensions of adversity were differentially associated with mental health and flourishing outcomes in childhood. • Family resilience appears to be p…
Measuring women's empowerment in developing countries: A systematic review
Measurement of women's empowerment has grown over the last few decades, but major challenges still exist for measuring progress in dimensions based on different situational and cultural contexts. This study used a systematic review method to identify quantitative literature related to measures of women's empowerment in developing countries. Features of 17 studies were summarized and compared applying bivariate and text analysis. The most applied …
The Art of Living With Chronic Health Conditions
Chronic health conditions are often accompanied by depression and a decrease in quality of life. This greatly complicates treatment and affects treatment outcomes. Thus, the purpose of this study was to analyze previously published stories of 10 survivors of chronic diseases and depression, using content analysis, to answer the following question: What can be learned from the experiences of the storytellers bereaved by the burden of chronic healt…
The Current Situation Regarding Long-Acting Insulin Analogues Including Biosimilars Among African, Asian, European, and South American Countries; Findings and Implications for the Future
Background: Diabetes mellitus rates continue to rise, which coupled with increasing costs of associated complications has appreciably increased global expenditure in recent years. The risk of complications are enhanced by poor glycaemic control including hypoglycaemia. Long-acting insulin analogues were developed to reduce hypoglycaemia and improve adherence. Their considerably higher costs though have impacted their funding and use. Biosimilars …
Covid-19 Pandemic Affects the Medical Students’ Learning Process and Assaults Their Psychological Wellbeing
Assault on psychological wellbeing, struggling to memorize, inattention and difficulty in concentration on studies, along with perceived overall trouble with learning, have emerged as collateral damage from the COVID-19 pandemic with respect to medical students
“There’s like no support system”: The life course stories of women with children about growing up, becoming mothers, and becoming homeless
The current study reports on a narrative analysis of the stories of women (N = 20, 40% African American) with children who have been or are currently homeless with a focus on the women’s experiences during childhood, becoming homeless, and becoming mothers, and for some, exiting homelessness. We employed the life course theoretical framework to identify six themes across two developmental periods, pre-adulthood and adulthood: (1) constant fragmen…
Marital Rape and HIV Risk in Uganda: The Impact of Women’s Empowerment Factors
This study used Uganda Demographic Health Survey data (2011) to examine the role of women's empowerment in reducing HIV risk among married women who experienced sexual violence in Uganda. The sample size was 8,674 ever-married women aged 15-49 years. Significant differences were revealed for marital rape, women's empowerment variables, and reducing HIV risk according to sociodemographic characteristics. Women's labor force participation partially…
Oral misoprostol for preventing postpartum haemorrhage in home births in rural Bangladesh: How effective is it
AIMS: Evidence exists about prevention of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) by oral administration of misoprostol in low-income countries, but effectiveness of prevention by lay community health workers (CHW) is not sufficient. This study aimed to investigate whether a single dose (400 μg) of oral misoprostol could prevent PPH in a community home-birth setting and to assess its acceptability and feasibility among rural Bangladeshi women. METHODS: This…
Impact of targeted food supplementation on pregnancy weight gain and birth weight in rural Bangladesh: An assessment of the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Program (Binp)
Objectives To assess whether the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Programme (BINP) correctly identified which pregnant women should be enrolled in the food supplementation programme, whether supplementation commenced on time and was taken on a regular basis. A second objective was to determine whether food supplementation led to enhanced pregnancy weight gain and reduction in the prevalence of low birth weight. Design A one-year community-based lo…
Maternal anthropometry as a predictor of birth weight
Objective To determine whether maternal anthropometry predicted birth weight, and if so, to identify which cut-offs provided the best prediction of low birth weight (LBW) in a field situation. Design Community-based longitudinal study. Setting A rural union of Bhaluka Upazila, Mymensingh, located 110 km north-west of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Participants A total of 1104 normotensive, non-smoking pregnant women who attended community nutr…
The impact of food supplementation on infant weight gain in rural Bangladesh; an assessment of the Bangladesh Integrated Nutritional Program (Binp)
Objectives To examine the efficiency of the Bangladesh Integrated Nutritional Program (BINP) in identifying which infants should be supplemented, whether full supplementation was given for the stipulated period of time, and whether the correct exit criteria from the supplementation programme were used. To test whether targeted food supplementation of infants between 6–12 months of age resulted in enhanced weight gain. Setting Mallickbari Union, B…
The Hidden Cost of 'Free' Maternity Care in Dhaka, Bangladesh
We studied the cost and affordability of 'free' maternity services at government facilities in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to assess whether economic factors may contribute to low utilization. We conducted a questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews among 220 post-partum mothers and their husbands, selected from four government maternity facilities (three referral hospitals and one Mother and Child Health hospital) in Dhaka. Mothers with serious compli…
Relations between socio‐economic status and morbidity, food intake and growth in young children in two villages in Bangladesh
The relations between socio‐economic status (SES) and food‐intake, morbidity and anthropometric status of children under five years old were analyzed from longitudinal data collected in two Bangladeshi villages. Illness surveillance every other day and monthly anthropometric measurements were done during one year for 197 children, and weighed food intake studies were done monthly for 65 of these children. Socio‐economic variables included wealth …
Class, Patriarchy, and Women's Work in Bangladesh
Class, Patriarchy, and Women's Work in Bangladesh
The Hidden Cost of 'Free' Maternity Care in Dhaka, Bangladesh
We studied the cost and affordability of 'free' maternity services at government facilities in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to assess whether economic factors may contribute to low utilization. We conducted a questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews among 220 post-partum mothers and their husbands, selected from four government maternity facilities (three referral hospitals and one Mother and Child Health hospital) in Dhaka. Mothers with serious compli…
Associations of threat and deprivation-related childhood exposures with children’s mental health and flourishing: The moderating role of family resilience
The association of ACEs with physical and mental well-being is predominantly examined using a cumulative ACE score. However, less is known about how different dimensions of adversity (e.g., threat and deprivation) may uniquely predict children’s mental health and development. • Threat and deprivation dimensions of adversity were differentially associated with mental health and flourishing outcomes in childhood. • Family resilience appears to be p…
Marital Rape and HIV Risk in Uganda: The Impact of Women’s Empowerment Factors
This study used Uganda Demographic Health Survey data (2011) to examine the role of women's empowerment in reducing HIV risk among married women who experienced sexual violence in Uganda. The sample size was 8,674 ever-married women aged 15-49 years. Significant differences were revealed for marital rape, women's empowerment variables, and reducing HIV risk according to sociodemographic characteristics. Women's labor force participation partially…
Class, Patriarchy, and Women's Work in Bangladesh
Relations between socio‐economic status and morbidity, food intake and growth in young children in two villages in Bangladesh
The relations between socio‐economic status (SES) and food‐intake, morbidity and anthropometric status of children under five years old were analyzed from longitudinal data collected in two Bangladeshi villages. Illness surveillance every other day and monthly anthropometric measurements were done during one year for 197 children, and weighed food intake studies were done monthly for 65 of these children. Socio‐economic variables included wealth …
The Hidden Cost of 'Free' Maternity Care in Dhaka, Bangladesh
We studied the cost and affordability of 'free' maternity services at government facilities in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to assess whether economic factors may contribute to low utilization. We conducted a questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews among 220 post-partum mothers and their husbands, selected from four government maternity facilities (three referral hospitals and one Mother and Child Health hospital) in Dhaka. Mothers with serious compli…
Maternal anthropometry as a predictor of birth weight
Objective To determine whether maternal anthropometry predicted birth weight, and if so, to identify which cut-offs provided the best prediction of low birth weight (LBW) in a field situation. Design Community-based longitudinal study. Setting A rural union of Bhaluka Upazila, Mymensingh, located 110 km north-west of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Participants A total of 1104 normotensive, non-smoking pregnant women who attended community nutr…
The impact of food supplementation on infant weight gain in rural Bangladesh; an assessment of the Bangladesh Integrated Nutritional Program (Binp)
Objectives To examine the efficiency of the Bangladesh Integrated Nutritional Program (BINP) in identifying which infants should be supplemented, whether full supplementation was given for the stipulated period of time, and whether the correct exit criteria from the supplementation programme were used. To test whether targeted food supplementation of infants between 6–12 months of age resulted in enhanced weight gain. Setting Mallickbari Union, B…
Impact of targeted food supplementation on pregnancy weight gain and birth weight in rural Bangladesh: An assessment of the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Program (Binp)
Objectives To assess whether the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Programme (BINP) correctly identified which pregnant women should be enrolled in the food supplementation programme, whether supplementation commenced on time and was taken on a regular basis. A second objective was to determine whether food supplementation led to enhanced pregnancy weight gain and reduction in the prevalence of low birth weight. Design A one-year community-based lo…
Oral misoprostol for preventing postpartum haemorrhage in home births in rural Bangladesh: How effective is it
AIMS: Evidence exists about prevention of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) by oral administration of misoprostol in low-income countries, but effectiveness of prevention by lay community health workers (CHW) is not sufficient. This study aimed to investigate whether a single dose (400 μg) of oral misoprostol could prevent PPH in a community home-birth setting and to assess its acceptability and feasibility among rural Bangladeshi women. METHODS: This…
Marital Rape and HIV Risk in Uganda: The Impact of Women’s Empowerment Factors
This study used Uganda Demographic Health Survey data (2011) to examine the role of women's empowerment in reducing HIV risk among married women who experienced sexual violence in Uganda. The sample size was 8,674 ever-married women aged 15-49 years. Significant differences were revealed for marital rape, women's empowerment variables, and reducing HIV risk according to sociodemographic characteristics. Women's labor force participation partially…
“There’s like no support system”: The life course stories of women with children about growing up, becoming mothers, and becoming homeless
The current study reports on a narrative analysis of the stories of women (N = 20, 40% African American) with children who have been or are currently homeless with a focus on the women’s experiences during childhood, becoming homeless, and becoming mothers, and for some, exiting homelessness. We employed the life course theoretical framework to identify six themes across two developmental periods, pre-adulthood and adulthood: (1) constant fragmen…
The Current Situation Regarding Long-Acting Insulin Analogues Including Biosimilars Among African, Asian, European, and South American Countries; Findings and Implications for the Future
Background: Diabetes mellitus rates continue to rise, which coupled with increasing costs of associated complications has appreciably increased global expenditure in recent years. The risk of complications are enhanced by poor glycaemic control including hypoglycaemia. Long-acting insulin analogues were developed to reduce hypoglycaemia and improve adherence. Their considerably higher costs though have impacted their funding and use. Biosimilars …
Covid-19 Pandemic Affects the Medical Students’ Learning Process and Assaults Their Psychological Wellbeing
Assault on psychological wellbeing, struggling to memorize, inattention and difficulty in concentration on studies, along with perceived overall trouble with learning, have emerged as collateral damage from the COVID-19 pandemic with respect to medical students
Measuring women's empowerment in developing countries: A systematic review
Measurement of women's empowerment has grown over the last few decades, but major challenges still exist for measuring progress in dimensions based on different situational and cultural contexts. This study used a systematic review method to identify quantitative literature related to measures of women's empowerment in developing countries. Features of 17 studies were summarized and compared applying bivariate and text analysis. The most applied …
The Art of Living With Chronic Health Conditions
Chronic health conditions are often accompanied by depression and a decrease in quality of life. This greatly complicates treatment and affects treatment outcomes. Thus, the purpose of this study was to analyze previously published stories of 10 survivors of chronic diseases and depression, using content analysis, to answer the following question: What can be learned from the experiences of the storytellers bereaved by the burden of chronic healt…
Female teachers' experiences: Unraveling the nexus of gender violence, health, education, and cultural norms
Despite evidence about the importance of education and its role in bridging the gender gap, attitudes and behaviors that devalue women based on gender persist, with female teachers continually being victimized by gender violence. The current study's objective is to describe the lived experiences of Kenyan women teachers and how gender intersects with their well-being, including health, education, and societal norms, using social scripting theory.…
Women’s reproductive health in the aftermath of natural disasters in Bangladesh: Prospects for empowerment
In this study, the authors examine the effect of Cyclone Sidr in 2007 on selected aspects of women's reproductive decision-making in Bangladesh. We used Person in Environment theories to model the effect of cyclone Sidr on the reasons for non-contraception among women who did not want a child. The difference-in-difference approach was used as a research design using Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys of 2004 and 2011 to test a model of rea…
Associations of threat and deprivation-related childhood exposures with children’s mental health and flourishing: The moderating role of family resilience
The association of ACEs with physical and mental well-being is predominantly examined using a cumulative ACE score. However, less is known about how different dimensions of adversity (e.g., threat and deprivation) may uniquely predict children’s mental health and development. • Threat and deprivation dimensions of adversity were differentially associated with mental health and flourishing outcomes in childhood. • Family resilience appears to be p…
Decolonizing the language of counseling and social work education and practice
Muslim masculinities in Bangladeshi and Malaysian Anglophone fiction: An Empirical Framework
Understanding the Covid-19 Impacts on Social Work Learning Through the Lens of Planned Behavior Theory
COVID-19 was a global pandemic that caused higher education to enter emergency distance learning. Students experienced a myriad of emotional and psychological stressors during this pandemic. While the demand for online learning has been steadily increasing, even in the field of social work, it has nonetheless lagged behind other disciplines due to concerns about limited interpersonal interactions. We attempted to understand students' intentions, …
Medicine (15 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Demography (6 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Internal Medicine (4 works) · Pediatrics (4 works) · Biology (3 works)