Shamsa Zafar

Maternal multimorbidity during pregnancy and after childbirth in women in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic literature review.

Authors:

Mary McCauley Shamsa Zafar Nynke van den Broek

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2020 Oct 20;20(1):637. Epub 2020 Oct 20.

Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK.

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October 2020

A scientometric analysis of birth cohorts in South Asia: Way forward for Pakistan.

Authors:

Ahmed Waqas Shamsa Zafar Deborah A Lawlor John Wright Assad Hafeez Ikhlaq Ahmad Siham Sikander Atif Rahman

PLoS One 2020 9;15(7):e0235385. Epub 2020 Jul 9.

Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

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September 2020

Cognitive-behavioral therapy-based intervention to treat symptoms of anxiety in pregnancy in a prenatal clinic using non-specialist providers in Pakistan: design of a randomised trial.

Authors:

Pamela J Surkan Syed Usman Hamdani Zill-E Huma Huma Nazir Najia Atif Armaan A Rowther Rizwana Chaudhri Shamsa Zafar Luke C Mullany Abid Malik Atif Rahman

BMJ Open 2020 04 15;10(4):e037590. Epub 2020 Apr 15.

Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

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April 2020

Development of a Psychological Intervention to Address Anxiety During Pregnancy in a Low-Income Country.

Authors:

Najia Atif Huma Nazir Shamsa Zafar Rizwana Chaudhri Maria Atiq Luke C Mullany Armaan A Rowther Abid Malik Pamela J Surkan Atif Rahman

Front Psychiatry 2019 10;10:927. Epub 2020 Jan 10.

Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

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January 2020

'Good health means being mentally, socially, emotionally and physically fit': women's understanding of health and ill health during and after pregnancy in India and Pakistan: a qualitative study.

Authors:

Mary McCauley Ayesha Rasheeda Avais Ritu Agrawal Shumaila Saleem Shamsa Zafar Nynke van den Broek

BMJ Open 2020 01 21;10(1):e028760. Epub 2020 Jan 21.

Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.

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January 2020

Burden of injury along the development spectrum: associations between the Socio-demographic Index and disability-adjusted life year estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.

Authors:

Juanita A Haagsma Spencer L James Chris D Castle Zachary V Dingels Jack T Fox Erin B Hamilton Zichen Liu Lydia R Lucchesi Nicholas L S Roberts Dillon O Sylte Oladimeji M Adebayo Alireza Ahmadi Muktar Beshir Ahmed Miloud Taki Eddine Aichour Fares Alahdab Suliman A Alghnam Syed Mohamed Aljunid Rajaa M Al-Raddadi Ubai Alsharif Khalid Altirkawi Mina Anjomshoa Carl Abelardo T Antonio Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah Olatunde Aremu Amit Arora Hamid Asayesh Reza Assadi Ashish Awasthi Beatriz Paulina Ayala Quintanilla Shivanthi Balalla Amrit Banstola Suzanne Lyn Barker-Collo Till Winfried Bärnighausen Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi Neeraj Bedi Masoud Behzadifar Meysam Behzadifar Corina Benjet Derrick A Bennett Isabela M Bensenor Soumyadeep Bhaumik Zulfiqar A Bhutta Ali Bijani Guilherme Borges Rohan Borschmann Dipan Bose Soufiane Boufous Alexandra Brazinova Julio Cesar Campuzano Rincon Rosario Cárdenas Juan J Carrero Félix Carvalho Carlos A Castañeda-Orjuela Ferrán Catalá-López Jee-Young J Choi Devasahayam J Christopher Christopher Stephen Crowe Koustuv Dalal Ahmad Daryani Dragos Virgil Davitoiu Louisa Degenhardt Diego De Leo Jan-Walter De Neve Kebede Deribe Getenet Ayalew Dessie Gabrielle Aline deVeber Samath Dhamminda Dharmaratne Linh Phuong Doan Kate A Dolan Tim Robert Driscoll Manisha Dubey Ziad El-Khatib Christian Lycke Ellingsen Maysaa El Sayed Zaki Aman Yesuf Endries Sharareh Eskandarieh Andre Faro Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad Eduarda Fernandes Irina Filip Florian Fischer Richard Charles Franklin Takeshi Fukumoto Kebede Embaye Gezae Tiffany K Gill Alessandra C Goulart Ayman Grada Yuming Guo Rahul Gupta Hassan Haghparast Bidgoli Arvin Haj-Mirzaian Arya Haj-Mirzaian Randah R Hamadeh Samer Hamidi Josep Maria Haro Hadi Hassankhani Hamid Yimam Hassen Rasmus Havmoeller Delia Hendrie Andualem Henok Martha Híjar Michael K Hole Enayatollah Homaie Rad Naznin Hossain Sorin Hostiuc Guoqing Hu Ehimario U Igumbor Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam Rebecca Q Ivers Kathryn H Jacobsen Nader Jahanmehr Mihajlo Jakovljevic Achala Upendra Jayatilleke Ravi Prakash Jha Jost B Jonas Zahra Jorjoran Shushtari Jacek Jerzy Jozwiak Mikk Jürisson Ali Kabir Rizwan Kalani Amir Kasaeian Abraham Getachew Kelbore Andre Pascal Kengne Yousef Saleh Khader Morteza Abdullatif Khafaie Nauman Khalid Ejaz Ahmad Khan Abdullah T Khoja Aliasghar A Kiadaliri Young-Eun Kim Daniel Kim Adnan Kisa Ai Koyanagi Barthelemy Kuate Defo Burcu Kucuk Bicer Manasi Kumar Ratilal Lalloo Hilton Lam Faris Hasan Lami Van C Lansingh Janet L Leasher Shanshan Li Shai Linn Raimundas Lunevicius Flavia R Machado Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek Muhammed Magdy Abd El Razek Narayan Bahadur Mahotra Marek Majdan Azeem Majeed Reza Malekzadeh Manzoor Ahmad Malik Deborah Carvalho Malta Ana-Laura Manda Mohammad Ali Mansournia Benjamin Ballard Massenburg Pallab K Maulik Hailemariam Abiy Alemu Meheretu Man Mohan Mehndiratta Addisu Melese Walter Mendoza Melkamu Merid Mengesha Tuomo J Meretoja Atte Meretoja Tomislav Mestrovic Tomasz Miazgowski Ted R Miller G K Mini Erkin M Mirrakhimov Babak Moazen Naser Mohammad Gholi Mezerji Roghayeh Mohammadibakhsh Shafiu Mohammed Mariam Molokhia Lorenzo Monasta Stefania Mondello Pablo A Montero-Zamora Yoshan Moodley Mahmood Moosazadeh Ghobad Moradi Maziar Moradi-Lakeh Lidia Morawska Ilais Moreno Velásquez Shane Douglas Morrison Marilita M Moschos Seyyed Meysam Mousavi Srinivas Murthy Kamarul Imran Musa Gurudatta Naik Farid Najafi Vinay Nangia Bruno Ramos Nascimento Duduzile Edith Ndwandwe Ionut Negoi Trang Huyen Nguyen Son Hoang Nguyen Long Hoang Nguyen Huong Lan Thi Nguyen Dina Nur Anggraini Ningrum Yirga Legesse Nirayo Richard Ofori-Asenso Felix Akpojene Ogbo In-Hwan Oh Olanrewaju Oladimeji Andrew T Olagunju Tinuke O Olagunju Pedro R Olivares Heather M Orpana Stanislav S Otstavnov Mahesh P A Smita Pakhale Eun-Kee Park George C Patton Konrad Pesudovs Michael R Phillips Suzanne Polinder Swayam Prakash Amir Radfar Anwar Rafay Alireza Rafiei Siavash Rahimi Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar Muhammad Aziz Rahman Rajesh Kumar Rai Kiana Ramezanzadeh Salman Rawaf David Laith Rawaf Andre M N Renzaho Serge Resnikoff Shahab Rezaeian Leonardo Roever Luca Ronfani Gholamreza Roshandel Yogesh Damodar Sabde Basema Saddik Payman Salamati Yahya Salimi Inbal Salz Abdallah M Samy Juan Sanabria Lidia Sanchez Riera Milena M Santric Milicevic Maheswar Satpathy Monika Sawhney Susan M Sawyer Sonia Saxena Mete Saylan Ione J C Schneider David C Schwebel Soraya Seedat Sadaf G Sepanlou Masood Ali Shaikh Mehran Shams-Beyranvand Morteza Shamsizadeh Mahdi Sharif-Alhoseini Aziz Sheikh Jiabin Shen Mika Shigematsu Rahman Shiri Ivy Shiue João Pedro Silva Jasvinder A Singh Dhirendra Narain Sinha Adauto Martins Soares Filho Joan B Soriano Sergey Soshnikov Ireneous N Soyiri Vladimir I Starodubov Dan J Stein Mark A Stokes Mu'awiyyah Babale Sufiyan Jacob E Sunshine Bryan L Sykes Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos Karen M Tabb Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi Gizachew Assefa Tessema Jarnail Singh Thakur Khanh Bao Tran Bach Xuan Tran Lorainne Tudor Car Olalekan A Uthman Benjamin S Chudi Uzochukwu Pascual R Valdez Elena Varavikova Ana Maria Nogales Vasconcelos Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian Francesco S Violante Vasily Vlassov Yasir Waheed Yuan-Pang Wang Tissa Wijeratne Andrea Sylvia Winkler Priyanka Yadav Yuichiro Yano Muluken Azage Yenesew Paul Yip Engida Yisma Naohiro Yonemoto Mustafa Z Younis Chuanhua Yu Shamsa Zafar Zoubida Zaidi Sojib Bin Zaman Mohammad Zamani Yong Zhao Sanjay Zodpey Simon I Hay Alan D Lopez Ali H Mokdad Theo Vos

Inj Prev 2020 Oct 8;26(Supp 1):i12-i26. Epub 2020 Jan 8.

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.

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October 2020

Protocol for establishing a child and adolescent twin register for mental health research and capacity building in Sri Lanka and other low and middle-income countries in South Asia.

BMJ Open 2019 10 16;9(10):e029332. Epub 2019 Oct 16.

Institute for Research and Development in Health and Social Care, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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October 2019

Using technology to scale-up training and supervision of community health workers in the psychosocial management of perinatal depression: a non-inferiority, randomized controlled trial.

Authors:

Atif Rahman Parveen Akhtar Syed Usman Hamdani Najia Atif Huma Nazir Iftikhar Uddin Anum Nisar Zille Huma Joanna Maselko Siham Sikander Shamsa Zafar

Glob Ment Health (Camb) 2019 16;6:e8. Epub 2019 May 16.

Human Development Research Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan.

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May 2019

Burden of physical, psychological and social ill-health during and after pregnancy among women in India, Pakistan, Kenya and Malawi.

Authors:

Mary McCauley Barbara Madaj Sarah A White Fiona Dickinson Sarah Bar-Zev Mamuda Aminu Pamela Godia Pratima Mittal Shamsa Zafar Nynke van den Broek

BMJ Glob Health 2018 3;3(3):e000625. Epub 2018 May 3.

Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.

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May 2018

Dynamics of evidence-informed health policy making in Pakistan.

Authors:

Zaeem Haq Assad Hafeez Shamsa Zafar Abdul Ghaffar

Health Policy Plan 2017 Dec;32(10):1449-1456

Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

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December 2017

"Keeping family matters behind closed doors": healthcare providers' perceptions and experiences of identifying and managing domestic violence during and after pregnancy.

Authors:

Mary McCauley Jennifer Head Jaki Lambert Shamsa Zafar Nynke van den Broek

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2017 Sep 22;17(1):318. Epub 2017 Sep 22.

Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.

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September 2017

The effectiveness of Technology-assisted Cascade Training and Supervision of community health workers in delivering the Thinking Healthy Program for perinatal depression in a post-conflict area of Pakistan - study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Authors:

Shamsa Zafar Siham Sikander Syed Usman Hamdani Najia Atif Parveen Akhtar Huma Nazir Joanna Maselko Atif Rahman

Trials 2016 Apr 6;17:188. Epub 2016 Apr 6.

Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool, Manchester, UK.

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April 2016

A randomized controlled trial comparing Pentazocine and Chamomilla recutita for labor pain relief.

Authors:

Shamsa Zafar Yawar Najam Zaeema Arif Assad Hafeez

Homeopathy 2016 Feb 31;105(1):66-70. Epub 2015 Oct 31.

Health Services Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan. Electronic address:

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February 2016

Is home delivery really preferred? a mixed-methods national study in Pakistan.

Authors:

Shamsa Zafar Siham Sikander Ikhlaq Ahmad Mansoor Ahmad Nazia Parveen Shumaila Saleem Tayyba Nawaz Zainab Suleman Nadia Suleman Noor ulAin Ayesha Naeem Asma Bashir

Health Res Policy Syst 2015 Nov 25;13 Suppl 1:52. Epub 2015 Nov 25.

Human Development Research Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan.

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November 2015

Non-Life Threatening Maternal Morbidity: Cross Sectional Surveys from Malawi and Pakistan.

Authors:

Shamsa Zafar Rachel Jean-Baptiste Atif Rahman James P Neilson Nynke R van den Broek

PLoS One 2015 21;10(9):e0138026. Epub 2015 Sep 21.

Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

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May 2016

Status of emergency obstetric care in four districts of Punjab, Pakistan - results of a baseline assessment.

Authors:

Bettina Utz Shamsa Zafar Noreen Arshad Terry Kana Somla Gopalakrishnan

J Pak Med Assoc 2015 May;65(5):480-5

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK.

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May 2015

Outpatient endometrial biopsy with Pipelle vs diagnostic dilatation and curettage.

Authors:

Raazia Rauf Asma Shaheen Shamsunisa Sadia Faressa Waqar Shamsa Zafar Saadia Sultana Shumaila Waseem

J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad 2014 Apr-Jun;26(2):145-8

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Railway Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistna.

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February 2015

Cognitive-behavioral counseling for exclusive breastfeeding in rural pediatrics: a cluster RCT.

Authors:

Siham Sikander Joanna Maselko Shamsa Zafar Zaeem Haq Ikhlaq Ahmad Mansoor Ahmad Assad Hafeez Atif Rahman

Pediatrics 2015 Feb 12;135(2):e424-31. Epub 2015 Jan 12.

Institute of Psychology, Health, and Society, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

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February 2015

Integrating maternal psychosocial well-being into a child-development intervention: the five-pillars approach.

Authors:

Shamsa Zafar Siham Sikander Zaeem Haq Zelee Hill Raghu Lingam Jolene Skordis-Worrall Assad Hafeez Betty Kirkwood Atif Rahman

Ann N Y Acad Sci 2014 Jan;1308:107-17

Human Development Research Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan.

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January 2014

Understanding care and feeding practices: building blocks for a sustainable intervention in India and Pakistan.

Authors:

Raghu Lingam Pallavi Gupta Shamsa Zafar Zelee Hill Aisha Yousafzai Sharad Iyengar Siham Sikander Zaeem ul Haq Shilpa Mehta Jolene Skordis-Worrel Atif Rahman Betty Kirkwood

Ann N Y Acad Sci 2014 Jan 6;1308:204-17. Epub 2014 Jan 6.

Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

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January 2014

Influence of media on contraceptive use: a cross-sectional study in four Asian countries.

Authors:

Muhammad Bedar Bakht Zaeema Arif Shamsa Zafar Muhammad Asif Nawaz

J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad 2013 Jul-Dec;25(3-4):3-8

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October 2014

Health system barriers to access and use of magnesium sulfate for women with severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Pakistan: evidence for policy and practice.

Authors:

Maryam Bigdeli Shamsa Zafar Hafeez Assad Adbul Ghaffar

PLoS One 2013 26;8(3):e59158. Epub 2013 Mar 26.

Alliance for Health Policy and System Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

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September 2013

A proposed new international convention supporting the rights of pregnant women and girls and their newborn infants.

Authors:

Benjamin Winrow Khalif Bile Assad Hafeez Hugh Davies Nick Brown Shamsa Zafar Mamady Cham Barbara Phillips Rhona MacDonald David P Southall

Arch Dis Child 2012 May 13;97(5):447-51. Epub 2012 Jan 13.

Maternal and Childhealth Advocacy International, Nottingham, UK.

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May 2012

Impact of essential surgical skills with an emphasis on emergency maternal, neonatal and child health training on the practice of doctors: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Pakistan.

Authors:

Yasir Bin Nisar Assad Hafeez Shamsa Zafar David P Southall

Resuscitation 2011 Aug 23;82(8):1047-52. Epub 2011 Mar 23.

Population Council, Islamabad, Pakistan.

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August 2011

Emergency maternal and child health training courses and advocacy to achieve millennium development goals in a poorly resourced country; challenges and opportunities.

Authors:

Assad Hafeez Shamsa Zafar Farrukh Qureshi Irfan Mirza Khalif Bile David P Southall

J Pak Med Assoc 2009 Apr;59(4):243-6

National Program for Family Planning & Primary Health Care, Federal Ministry of Health, Islamabad.

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April 2009

Evidence for improvement in the quality of care given during emergencies in pregnancy, infancy and childhood following training in life-saving skills: a postal survey.

Authors:

Zaeem-ul-Haq Farrukh Qureshi Assad Hafeez Shamsa Zafar Bile Khalif Mohamud David P Southal

J Pak Med Assoc 2009 Jan;59(1):22-6

Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, Islamabad.

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January 2009

Structured training in the management of emergencies in mothers, babies and children in a poorly resourced health system: logbooks to document skill use.

Authors:

Shamsa Zafar Assad Hafeez Farrukh Qureshi Naureen Arshad David Southall

Resuscitation 2009 Apr 5;80(4):449-52. Epub 2009 Feb 5.

Child Advocacy International, 7, Alassad Plaza, F-10 Markaz Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan.

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April 2009

Role of metformin in correcting hyperinsulinemia, menstrual irregularity and anovulation in polycystic ovary syndrome.

Authors:

Shamsa Zafar

J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad 2005 Oct-Dec;17(4):54-6

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Islamic International Medical College, Rawalpindi.

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May 2006

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