Association between behavioural, metabolic risk factors of non-communicable diseases and socio-demographic factors among Bihari population in Bangladesh

Abstract

Background: The Bihari community is an underprivileged group of people, immigrants from Pakistan during 1971 independence war, now living in Bangladesh. This community is considered as vulnerable for not having adequate health care facilities and access to health services. The current study is aimed to determine the association between behavioural, metabolic risk factors of non-communicable diseases (NCD) and socio-demographic factors among Bihari community in Bangladesh.Methods: It was a community based cross-sectional study. Total 183 Bihari living in Geneva camp in Dhaka city have been included in the study by purposive sampling. An adopted WHO STEPS questionnaire was used for data collection. A semi structured questionnaire and standardized procedures were used to measure behavioural risk factors and physical characteristics. Data were analysed by using SPSS version 21.Results: Among the respondents the mean age was 44.4±13.2 years with 60.1% men. One-third (32.2%) were current tobacco user, almost all (99.5%) didn’t take sufficient fruit and vegetables, 52.5% were added salt user, 76.0% didn’t perform adequate physical activity but alcohol consumers were negligible (3.3%). More than half (54.6%) were overweight or obese, 33.9% had hypertension, 23.0% had hyperglycaemia and 50.3% had hyperlipidaemia. Sex, age, education, occupation and family income were significantly associated with these NCD risk factors.Conclusions: To our best knowledge this is the first ever study that describes the NCD risk factors and its sociodemographic determinants among the Bihari population in Bangladesh.

Behavioural Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases among Rural Population in a Selected Area of Dhaka City

“…only 42% of respondents were found using normal level of salt per day. A study by Ahmed et al 12 showed half (52.5%) were used to take added salt during their meal.…”

“…In south Asia Bangladesh is a lower middle income country with a population of over 160 million in 2015; while infectious diseases are still prevalent, the burden of NCDs is also increasing, even among the poor [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] . Population-based NCD risk factor surveys using a standardised method from the WHO called the STEP wise approach to surveillance (STEPS) 11 had been conducted four times in the past in Bangladesh.…”

“…It is important to generate the evidence to see how different their lifestyle is from the general population of Bangladesh and the risk factors that might leads to premature NCDs among this vulnerable people. Therefore, current study was conducted to explore all of the behavioural risk factors of NCDs among the semi-urban population living in Keranigonj in Dhaka city in Bangladesh 12 . The purpose of the present study was to determine the behavioural risk factors of non-communicable diseases (NCD) and socio-demographic factors among rural population in Bangladesh.…”