Edward Fottrell

Datos Biográficos

ID6159282
NOMBREEdward Fottrell
NOMBRESEdward
APELLIDOFottrell
FIRMAFOTTRELL E
AFILIACIONESUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0003-0518-7161
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS40
TOTAL DE CITAS11
TOTAL COMO AUTOR40
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2008
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • The feasibility of promoting recreational physical activity to manage type 2 diabetes in urban Bangladesh

    Open AccessJoanna Morrison, Sarker Ashraf Uddin Ahmed et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2026

    Urbanisation has contributed to increased sedentary behaviour, which is a major risk factor for non-communicable diseases. In South Asia, the type 2 diabetes burden is rapidly increasing, and there is a need to understand the effect of different social categories, such as gender, socio-economic status, and diabetes status, in shaping opportunities to participate in physical activity. We used a rapid participatory qualitative research methodology …

  • A cluster randomised controlled trial of community groups using Participatory Learning and Action to prevent and control diabetes and intermediate hyperglycaemia in rural Bangladesh

    Open AccessEdward Fottrell, Abdul Kuddus et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Community mobilisation through Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) has been shown to be effective for a range of health outcomes, including diabetes. Using a cluster randomised controlled trial we evaluated the impact of a PLA community mobilisation intervention for diabetes prevention and control when implemented in rural Bangladesh in 2021–2022 and adapted to the evolving context of the COVID-19 pandemic. 108 PLA groups held a minimum of 13…

  • The burden of common mental disorders and their association with diabetes in rural Bangladesh

    Open AccessMalini Pires, Carina King et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2025

    Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and common mental disorders (CMDs), including depression and anxiety, are significant public health challenges, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, evidence on the distribution and associations between T2DM and CMDs in rural LMIC populations remains limited. We aimed to examine this relationship in a sample of adults from rural Bangladesh. Methods: In this cross-sectional …

  • Perceptions and knowledge of diabetes in poor urban communities in Accra, Ghana

    Open AccessRaphael Baffour Awuah, Publa Antwi et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2025

    Diabetes is a major public health concern, leading to costly and life-threating complications while significantly impacting quality of life. However, limited evidence exists on how diabetes is understood in poor urban communities in Africa, including Ghana. Evidence suggests that community beliefs about disease can shape health outcomes and influence intervention strategies. This cross-sectional qualitative study assessed perceptions and knowledg…

  • Non-communicable diseases, psychosocial wellbeing, and quality of life in Ga Mashie, Accra, Ghana

    Open AccessKafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Irene Akwo Kretchy et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Diabetes, hypertension and obesity were associated with reduced QoL in Ga Mashie, Ghana. Further studies are needed to understand factors that influence health-related QoL among adults with NCDs, how these change over time, and to identify potential coping mechanisms that may influence this association

  • Changes in food quality and habits in urban Ghana

    Open AccessSandra Boatemaa Kushitor, Lydia Okoibhole et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Respondents reported a shift from home cooking and communal meals toward eating out-of-home meals. The current dietary habits reflect a hybrid of modern foods with traditional foods. Food insecurity is high, and their diets provide little protection against chronic non-communicable diseases. This limits opportunities to move towards healthy diets and improved health outcomes as envisioned in the Agenda 2030

  • Community perspectives on the built environment, community stress, and the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in Accra, Ghana

    Open AccessMawuli Komla Kushitor, Haim Yacobi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The growing burden of diabetes and other non-communicable diseases in Africa demands greater understanding of the contextual drivers of risk factors, including the built environment. Cognitive Mapping (CM) is a participatory research approach that allows community members to visualise their environmental context through drawing. The maps express in visual form the situated knowledge of the environment from local perceptions of daily experiences. …

  • The cascade of hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control in urban-poor communities in Accra, Ghana

    Open AccessOlutobi Adekunle Sanuade, Leonard Baatiema et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Hypertension is the leading modifiable risk factor for morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular diseases and poses a significant health challenge in low- and middle-income settings, including in sub-Saharan Africa. We set out to: (1) examine the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension, and their associated factors, and (2) determine the prevalence of pre-hypertension and its associated factors in an urban poor setting in G…

  • Sex differences in social connectedness, health, and quality of life

    Open AccessRolando Leiva-Granados, Carlos S Grijalva-Eternod et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Our study underscores the importance of examining sex-specific patterns in the relationships between social connectedness, QoL and health outcomes. Social connections appear to have both beneficial and non-beneficial effects, especially among women, although the magnitude of these effects was often small. This may reflect complex social dynamics shaped by cultural and traditional roles that differ by sex. Further research is needed to better unde…

  • Contextual awareness, response and evaluation (Care) of diabetes in poor urban communities in Ghana

    Open AccessLeonard Baatiema, Daniel Llywelyn Strachan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    Diabetes remains a major, global clinical and public health threat with consistent rises in prevalence around the world over the past four decades. Two-thirds of the projected increases in global diabetes prevalence to 2045 are expected to come from low- and middle-income countries, including those in sub-Saharan Africa. Ghana is typical of this trend. However, there are gaps in evidence regarding the appropriate development of interventions and …

  • The contextual awareness, response and evaluation (Care) diabetes project

    Open AccessSwaib A Lule, Sandra Boatemaa Kushitor et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    Diabetes is estimated to affect between 3.3% and 8.3% of adults in Ghana, and prevalence is expected to rise. The lack of cost-effective diabetes prevention programmes designed specifically for the Ghanaian population warrants urgent attention. The Contextual Awareness, Response and Evaluation (CARE): Diabetes Project in Ghana is a mixed methods study that aims to understand diabetes in the Ga Mashie area of Accra, identify opportunities for comm…

  • Stakeholder perceptions on scaling-up community-led interventions for prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in Bangladesh

    Open AccessKohenour Akter, Abdul Kuddus et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Research highlighted the need for a preventative community engagement strategy to address NCDs, and the potential to utilise existing cadres to scale-up community-led interventions. It will be important to work with key stakeholders to address gender issues and ensure flexibility and responsiveness to community concerns. We indicate areas for further implementation research to develop scaled-up models of community-led interventions to address NCD…

  • Changes in non-communicable diseases, diet and exercise in a rural Bangladesh setting before and after the first wave of Covid-19

    Open AccessCarina King, Sanjit Kumer Shaha et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is high in rural Bangladesh. Given the complex multi-directional relationships between NCDs, COVID-19 infections and control measures, exploring pandemic impacts in this context is important. We conducted two cross-sectional surveys of adults ≥30-years in rural Faridpur district, Bangladesh, in February to March 2020 (survey 1, pre-COVID-19), and January to March 2021 (survey 2, post-lockdown). A new…

  • Scoping review of community health participatory research projects in Ghana

    Open AccessIrene Akwo Kretchy, Lydia Okoibhole et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    BACKGROUND: Community health participation is an essential tool in health research and management where community members, researchers and other relevant stakeholders contribute to the decision-making processes. Though community participation processes can be complex and challenging, evidence from previous studies have reported significant value of engaging with community in community health projects. OBJECTIVE: To identify the nature and extent …

  • Equity impact of participatory learning and action community mobilisation and mHealth interventions to prevent and control type 2 diabetes and intermediate hyperglycaemia in rural Bangladesh

    Open AccessMalini Pires, Sanjit Shaha et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2022Citada por: 2Referencias: 32

    BACKGROUND: A cluster randomised trial of mHealth and participatory learning and action (PLA) community mobilisation interventions showed that PLA significantly reduced the prevalence of intermediate hyperglycaemia and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and the incidence of T2DM among adults in rural Bangladesh; mHealth improved knowledge but showed no effect on glycaemic outcomes. We explore the equity of intervention reach and impact. METHODS: Int…

  • Maternal mortality in the covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessClara Calvert, Jeeva John et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

  • Estimating causes of death where there is no medical certification

    Open AccessDaniel Chandramohan, Edward Fottrell et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    Over the past 70 years, significant advances have been made in determining the causes of death in populations not served by official medical certification of cause at the time of death using a technique known as Verbal Autopsy (VA). VA involves an interview of the family or caregivers of the deceased after a suitable bereavement interval about the circumstances, signs and symptoms of the deceased in the period leading to death. The VA interview d…

  • Data innovation in response to Covid-19 in Somalia

    Open AccessAndrew Seal, Mohamed Jelle et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of reliable public health data has been highlighted, as well as the multiple challenges in collecting it, especially in low income and conflict-affected countries. Somalia reported its first confirmed case of COVID-19 on 16 March 2020 and has experienced fluctuating infection levels since then. OBJECTIVES: To monitor the impact of COVID-19 on beneficiaries of a long-term cash transfer progr…

  • Refining circumstances of mortality categories (Comcat)

    Open AccessLucia D’ambruoso, Jessica Price et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    BACKGROUND: Recognising that the causes of over half the world's deaths pass unrecorded, the World Health Organization (WHO) leads development of Verbal Autopsy (VA): a method to understand causes of death in otherwise unregistered populations. Recently, VA has been developed for use outside research environments, supporting countries and communities to recognise and act on their own health priorities. We developed the Circumstances of Mortality …

  • Learning from a diabetes mHealth intervention in rural Bangladesh

    Open AccessJoanna Morrison, Kohenour Akter et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2021

    There is an urgent need for population-based interventions to slow the growth of the diabetes epidemic in low-and middle-income countries. We tested the effectiveness of a population-based mHealth voice messaging intervention for T2DM prevention and control in rural Bangladesh through a cluster randomised controlled trial. mHealth improved knowledge and awareness about T2DM but there was no detectable effect on T2DM occurrence. We conducted mixed…

  • Care-seeking and managing diabetes in rural Bangladesh

    Open AccessHannah Maria Jennings, Joanna Morrison et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

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  • Participatory learning and action cycles with women's groups to prevent neonatal death in low-resource settings

    Open AccessAnni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    WHO recommends participatory learning and action cycles with women's groups as a cost-effective strategy to reduce neonatal deaths. Coverage is a determinant of intervention effectiveness, but little is known about why cost-effectiveness estimates vary significantly. This article reanalyses primary cost data from six trials in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Malawi to describe resource use, explore reasons for differences in costs and cost-effective…

  • Participatory learning and action cycles with women’s groups to prevent neonatal death in low-resource settings

    Open AccessAnni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021Referencias: 29

    WHO recommends participatory learning and action cycles with women’s groups as a cost-effective strategy to reduce neonatal deaths. Coverage is a determinant of intervention effectiveness, but little is known about why cost-effectiveness estimates vary significantly. This article reanalyses primary cost data from six trials in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Malawi to describe resource use, explore reasons for differences in costs and cost-effective…

  • Visual Participatory Analysis

    Open AccessJenevieve Mannell, Katy Davis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Mixed Methods Research2020Citada por: 2Referencias: 3

    This article contributes to the field of mixed methods by introducing a new method for eliciting participant perspectives of the quantitative results of randomized controlled trials. Participants are rarely asked to interpret trial results, obscuring potentially valuable information about why a trial either succeeds or fails. We introduce a unique method called visual participatory analysis and discuss the insights gained in its use as part of a …

  • Developing a theory-driven contextually relevant mHealth intervention

    Open AccessHannah Maria Jennings, Joanna Morrison et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2019

    In order to respond to the local needs of a community in Bangladesh, a process of formative research, drawing on behavioural theory helped in the development of awareness-raising and behaviour change mHealth messages through helping us to conceptualise and understand behaviour (for example by categorising behaviour into specific domains) and subsequently identify specific behavioural strategies to target the behaviour