Publications by authors named "Saima Afaq"

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Consumption of commercial and traditional sugar-sweetened beverages among adolescents in Pakistan: evidence from a national survey.
Saima Afaq, Damith Chandrasenage, Urooj Ashfaq, Midhat Farzeen, Romaina Iqbal

Front Nutr· December 2025

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Engagement of coMmunity through Participatory learning and action for cOntrol and preVEntion of type II Diabetes and its Risk factors (EMPOWER-D) - A Protocol for a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial.
Khalid Rehman, Amber Tahir, Sara Imtiaz, Zohaib Khan, Saima Afaq

BMC Public Health· October 2025

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Effect of glycemic control on tuberculosis treatment outcomes among patients with tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Maham Zahid, Saima Afaq, Kashif Shafique, Fatima Khalid Qazi, Urooj Ashfaq

Trop Med Int Health· August 2025

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Multicomponent intervention for controlling hypertension in the adult rural population of Pakistan: a protocol for a hybrid type III implementation-effectiveness cluster randomised controlled trial.
Imran Naeem, Aysha Almas, Aziz Sheikh, Catherine Hewitt, Hajra Khwaja, Saima Afaq

BMJ Open· June 2025

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Prevalence of communicable, non-communicable diseases, disabilities and related risk factors in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan: Findings from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Integrated Population and Health Survey (2016-17).
Ziaul Haq, Saima Afaq, Muhammad Ibrahim, Zala, Muhammad Asim

PLoS One· May 2025

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Developing an integrated depression and tuberculosis care pathway using a co-design approach in a low-resource setting.
Olamide Todowede, Zara Nisar, Saima Afaq, Sushama Kanan, Aliya Ayub

Int J Ment Health Syst· May 2025

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Modelling diabetes and depression in Pakistan: using economic modelling to inform intervention design and a clinical trial of a behavioural activation intervention.
David Glynn, Pedro Saramago, Naveed Ahmed, Saima Afaq, Faiza Aslam

BMJ Open· May 2025

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A randomised controlled feasibility trial of Behavioural activation as a treatment for people with diabetes and depression: (DiaDeM feasibility trial).
Naveed Ahmed, Gerardo A Zavala, Faraz Siddiqui, Faiza Aslam, Ada Keding, Saima Afaq

J Affect Disord· March 2025

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Correction: Cytomorphological changes of oral mucosal cells among smokeless tobacco users in low and middle-income country settings: new findings from Pakistan.
Sabreen Hassan, Ayesha Sifat, Mohammad Munib, Saleha Saeed, Waqar Un Nisa, Saima Afaq

BMC Oral Health· February 2025

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Prevalence and associated factors of parental refusal rates for routine immunisation: a cross-sectional study in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan-2024.
Muhammad Hakim, Farhad Ali, Zala, Aslam Pervaiz, Saima Afaq

BMC Public Health· January 2025

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Effectiveness, barriers, and facilitators of interventions delivered by traditional healers for the treatment of common mental disorders: A systematic review.
Mujeeb Masud Bhatti, Najma Siddiqi, Hannah Jennings, Saima Afaq, Aatik Arsh

Transcult Psychiatry· December 2024

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Cytomorphological changes of oral mucosal cells among smokeless tobacco users in low and middle-income country settings: new findings from Pakistan.
Sabreen Hassan, Ayesha Sifat, Mohammad Munib, Saleha Saeed, Waqar U Nisa, Saima Afaq

BMC Oral Health· December 2024

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Implementation strategies for providing optimised tuberculosis and diabetes integrated care in LMICs (POTENTIAL): protocol for a multiphase sequential and concurrent mixed-methods study.
Saima Afaq, Zala Zala, Saima Aleem, Fatima Khalid Qazi, Syeda Fatima Jamal

BMJ Open· November 2024

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SELF-REPORTED MULTI-MORBIDITY WITH TUBERCULOSIS: DATA FROM THE KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA INTEGRATED POPULATION HEALTH SURVEY (KPIPHS) IN PAKISTAN.

J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad· November 2024

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Core outcome sets for trials of interventions to prevent and to treat multimorbidity in adults in low and middle-income countries: the COSMOS study.
Aishwarya Lakshmi Vidyasagaran, Rubab Ayesha, Jan R Boehnke, Jamie Kirkham, Louise Rose, Saima Afaq

BMJ Glob Health· August 2024

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Depression care integration in tuberculosis services: A feasibility assessment in Pakistan.
Saima Afaq, Aliya Ayub, Mehreen Riaz Faisal, Zara Nisar, Zala

Health Expect· February 2024

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Living with depression and diabetes: A qualitative study in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Hannah Maria Jennings, Ashraful Anas, Sara Asmat, Anum Naz, Saima Afaq

PLOS Glob Public Health· January 2024

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Perspectives of health workers engaging in task shifting to deliver health care in low-and-middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis.
Karen Coales, Hannah Jennings, Saima Afaq, Aatik Arsh, Mujeeb Bhatti

Glob Health Action· December 2023

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Oral health behind the bars: oral health seeking behavior among jail prisoners at central jail of Peshawar, Pakistan: a cross-sectional study.
Zia Ul Haq, Kashif Nawaz, Shamsul Alam, Farhad Ali Khattak, Naeem Ullah, Saima Afaq

BMC Oral Health· December 2023

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Healthcare workers safety in the COVID-19 era: the impact of pre-pandemic personal protective equipment (PPE) training in Pakistan.
Zia Ul Haq, Zarghona Fazal Sher, Farhad Ali Khattak, Zala, Muhammad Hakim, Saima Afaq

BMC Health Serv Res· November 2023

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Large-scale exome array summary statistics resources for glycemic traits to aid effector gene prioritization.
Sara M Willems, Natasha H J Ng, Juan Fernandez, Rebecca S Fine, Eleanor Wheeler, Saima Afaq

Wellcome Open Res· October 2023

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Association and comparison of periodontal and oral hygiene status with serum HbA1c levels: a cross-sectional study.
Abid Rahim, Sabreen Hassan, Naeem Ullah, Nawal Noor, Ahmed, Saima Afaq

BMC Oral Health· July 2023

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Correction: Addressing TB multimorbidity in policy and practice: An exploratory survey of TB providers in 27 high-TB burden countries.
Alexander Jarde, Noemia Siqueira, Saima Afaq, Farah Naz, Muhammad Irfan

PLOS Glob Public Health· July 2023

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Barriers and facilitators to integrating depression care in tuberculosis services in South Asia: a multi-country qualitative study.
Olamide Todowede, Saima Afaq, Anoshmita Adhikary, Sushama Kanan, Vidhya Shree

BMC Health Serv Res· July 2023

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Effectiveness and implementation of psychological interventions for depression in people with non-communicable diseases in South Asia: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
Gerardo A Zavala, Hannah Maria Jennings, Saima Afaq, Ashraful Alam, Naveed Ahmed

Int J Ment Health· April 2023

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