Publications

Peer-reviewed research articles, books, and scholarly contributions advancing mental health science and practice

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2022

Transforming access to care for serious mental disorders in slums (the TRANSFORM Project): rationale, design and protocol
Swaran P. Singh, Sagar Jilka , Jibril Abdulmalik , Georgios Bouliotis , Rakesh Chadda , Olayinka Egbokhare , Rumana Huque , Gillian Lewando Hundt , Srividya Iyer , Obafemi Jegede , Neeru Khera , Richard Lilford , Jason Madan , Akinyinka Omigbodun , Olayinka Omigbodun , Tasneem Raja , Ursula M. Read , Bulbul Ashraf Siddiqi , Mamta Sood , Tanjir Rashid Soron and Helal Uddin Ahmed
BJPsych Open DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.584
A data-driven validation of mobile-based care (mCARE) project for children with ASD in LMICs
Masud Rabbani, Munirul M. Haque, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal, Amy Schwichtenberg, Naveen Bansal, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
Smart Health DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smhl.2022.100345
MPredA: A Machine Learning Based Prediction System to Evaluate the Autism Level Improvement
Masud Rabbani, Munirul M. Haque, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal, Amy Schwichtenberg, Naveen Bansal, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed & Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
LNICST DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99194-4_26
A Mobile Health Application for Monitoring Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: ASD Monitoring by mHealth
Masud Rabbani, Munirul M. Haque, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal, Shaheen Akhter, Shahana Parveen, Mohammad Rasel, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Naveen Bansal, Amy Schwichtenberg, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-2304-2.ch002
Adapting the Use of Digital Content to Improve the Learning of Numeracy Among Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Rwanda: Thematic Content Analysis Study
Theoneste Ntalindwa, Mathias Nduwingoma, Alphonse Uworwabayeho, Pascasie Nyirahabimana, Evariste Karangwa, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Thomas Westin, Thashmee Karunaratne, Henrik Hansson,
JMIR Serious Games DOI: 10.2196/28276

2021

Domestic Violence and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh
Rashid Soron T, Ashiq MAR, Al-Hakeem M, Chowdhury ZF, Uddin Ahmed H, Afrooz Chowdhury C
JMIR Form Res 2021; 5(9):e24624 DOI: 10.2196/24624
Development of a Mobile App to Improve Numeracy Skills of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Participatory Design and Usability Study
Ntalindwa T, Nduwingoma M, Karangwa E, Rashid Soron T, Uworwabayeho A, Uwineza A
JMIR Pediatr Parent 2021; 4(3):e21471 DOI: 10.2196/21471
Informing Developmental Milestone Achievement for Children With Autism: Machine Learning Approach
Haque MM, Rabbani M, Dipal DD, Zarif MII, Iqbal A, Schwichtenberg A, Bansal N, Soron TR, Ahmed SI, Ahamed SI
JMIR Med Inform 2021;9(6):e29242 DOI: 10.2196/29242
Validation of the Bangla WHO-5 Well-being Index
Md. Omar Faruk, Farzana Alam , Kamal Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury and Tanjir Rashid Soron
Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2021.26
An mCARE study on patterns of risk and resilience for children with ASD in Bangladesh
Masud Rabbani, Munirul M. Haque, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal, Amy Schwichtenberg, Naveen Bansal, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed & Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
Sci Rep 11, 21342 (2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00793-7
Grant Report on mCARE: Mobile-Based Care for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) for Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).
Haque MM, Rabbani M, Dipal DD, Zarif MII, Iqbal A, Akhter S, Parveen S, Rasel M, Rabbani G, Alam F, Soron TR, Ahmed SI, Ahamed SI.
J Psychiatr Brain Sci. DOI: 10.20900/jpbs.20210004

2020

Preventing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the general population induced by trauma during the COVID pandemic
Gargot, T, Kisand, H Ana Miguel, Tanyeri, S, Soron, T. R, Serene, B, Feron, G Nikola Zaja, Florido, MJV, Oscar Soto-Angona, Frankova, I
European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation DOI: 10.1016/j.ejtd.2020.100193
Addressing the COVID-19 related stigma and discrimination: a fight against “infodemic” in Bangladesh
Hasan T, D, Hossain S, Soron, TR, Ahmed HU
Minerva Psichiatrica;61(4):184-7(1):184-191 DOI: 10.23736/S0391-1772.20.02088-9
Telepsychiatry as a mental health intervention for garment workers in Bangladesh: A ‘Need of Hour' during COVID-19?
Soron, TR, Hasan, MT, Podder, V, Sayeed, A
Population Medicine October 2020(2) DOI: 10.18332/popmed/125914
The hope and hype of telepsychiatry during the COVID-19 pandemic
TR Soron, SMS Islam, HU Ahmed, SI Ahmed
The Lancet Psychiatry 7 (8) DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30260-1
Suicide on Facebook-the tales of unnoticed departure in Bangladesh
TR Soron, SMS Islam
Global Mental Health 7,e12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2020.5
Leveraging Free-Hand Sketches for Potential Screening of PTSD
Shahid, F., Rahman, W, Rahman, M. S,. Purabi, S, A., Seddiqa, a,. Mostakim, M. Farhan Feroz, F,. Soron TR, Hossain, F,. Khan, N,. Islam, A, B,. Paul, N., Hoque, E,. and Islam. A. B. M.
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies DOI: 10.1145/3411835
Mental Health in COVID-19 - An e-health service to provide Tele-mental health support in pandemic
Akter, N, Chowdhury R, Soron TR.
Asian Hospital & & Healthcare Management. 49, pp-61-64 DOI: .
"We Need More Power to Stand Up'': Designing to Combat Stigmatization of the Caregivers of Children with Autism in Urban Bangladesh
Abdul Kawsar Tushar, Iffat Jahan Antara, Dipto Das, Priyank Chandra, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Md Munirul Haque, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
ICTD2020: Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development DOI: 10.1145/3392561.3394643
Towards Developing A Mobile-Based Care for Children with ASD (mCARE) in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) like Bangladesh
Munirul M. Haque, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Masud Rabbani, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal, Shaheen Akhter, Shahana Parveen, Mohammad Rasel, Basana Rani Muhuri, Tanjir Soron, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
In proceedings of the 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), p. 746-753 DOI: 10.1109/COMPSAC48688.2020.0-170

2019

Prottoy: A Smart Phone Based Mobile Application to Detect Autism of Children in Bangladesh
Satu, S, M., Azad, S, Haque, F, M., Soron, T, R,. Mamun, Ak
4th International Conference on Electrical Information and Communication Technology (EICT), 20-22 December 2019, Khulna, Bangladesh DOI: 10.1109/EICT48899.2019.9068815
The sun is no fun without rain: Physical environments affect how we feel about yellow across 55 countries
• Khalek, A.M.A., Akel, A. A., Al-Rasheed, A.S., Antonietti, J.P., Ásgeirsson, Á., Atitsogbe, K., Barma, J.M., Barratt, D., Bogushevskaya, V., Meziane, M.K.B., Chamseddine, A., Charernboon, T., Chkonia, E., Ciobanu, T., Corona, V., Creed, A., Dael, N., Daouk, H., Dimitrova, N., Doorenbos, C.B., Fomins, S., Pedrero, E.F., Gaspar, A., Gizdic, A., Griber, Y., Grimshaw, G., Hasan, A.A., Havelka, J., Hirnstein, M., Karlsson, B., Kim, J., Konstantinou, N., Laurent, E., Lindeman, M., Manav, B., Marquardt, L., Mefoh, P., Wasowicz, A.M., Mutandwa, P., Ngabolo, G., Muthusi, S., Oberfeld, D., Pastou, M.P., Perchtold, C.M., de Albéniz, A.P., Pouyan, N., Soron, T.R., Roinishvili, M., Romanyuk, L., Montejo, A.S., Sultanova, A., Tau, R., Uusküla, M., Vainio, S., Soto, V.V., Volkan, E., Wąsowicz, G., Zdravković, S., Zhang, M., Mohr, C.
Journal of Environmental Psychology DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101350
The use of information communication technologies among children with autism spectrum disorders: a descriptive qualitative study
Ntalindwa, T., Soron, T.R., Nduwingoma, M., Karangwa, E., White, R.
JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting. 2(2), pp. 1-8. DOI: 10.2196/12176
“I will kill myself”–The series of posts in Facebook and unnoticed departure of a life.
Soron, T.R.
Asian journal of psychiatry, 44, pp.55-57. DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2019.07.002