Faraz is collecting data from sites in Rawalpindi, Peshawar & Karachi - including data from focus groups as well as demographic info, field notes & observations Faraz Siddiqui MHARG York DiaDeM Pakistan DiaDeM #TIDE23 #Centre4IMPACT

Aatik Arsh: In Pakistan, women of Pashtun ethnicity face additional barriers to being physically active compared to men. Read the published paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #TIIDE Centre for IMPACT DiaDeM

DiaDeM Pakistan Saima Afaq University of York DiaDeM Hull York Medical School Four shining stars of DiaDeM 🌟 sharing their excellent research projects, as a requisite to their PhDs at #TIIDE23. Proud of you dear colleagues. DiaDeM DiaDeM Pakistan DiaDeM Bangladesh Centre for IMPACT

Back for the first afternoon session of #TIIDE23 with Karen Coales Nida Afsheen david ekers🇪🇺 who are running a session on #BehaviouralActivation - Implementation: How to roll out training and scale up DiaDeM DiaDeM Pakistan DiaDeM Bangladesh #DiaDeM

Ashraful Anas DiaDeM Bangladesh describes how the BA resources were adapted between the preliminary trial and the main trial #TIIDE23 DiaDeM Pakistan Centre for IMPACT

DiaDeM is testing Behavioral Activation for people with depression and diabetes in South Asia- who else can apprise us reg BA better than our BA experts & trainers; Prof David Ekers & Karen Coales facilitated by Nida & Anas remotely from SA #TIIDE23

'Creating a set of core outcomes for interventions addressing comorbidity in LMICs (COSMOS as part of IMPACT)'۔Prof Najma Siddiqi explaining the methods and sharing the imperative findings, facilitated by Rubab Ayesha from Pakistan. #TIIDE23

We are at #TIIDE23 Dissemination Event & Faiza Aslam is introducing the #DiaDeM Programme DiaDeM Pakistan DiaDeM Bangladesh More at DiaDeM impactsouthasia.com/diadem/

We are listening to Faiza Aslam eloquently explain the #DiaDeM DiaDeM #BehaviouralActivation Intervention - it is delivered by non-mental health specialists based in #diabetes clinics DiaDeM Bangladesh DiaDeM Pakistan #TIIDE23 - DiaDeM is funded by NIHR Global Health

The successful recruitment for the main trial so far is impressive Faiza Aslam shares figures as of yesterday 293/320 recruitments 🇧🇩 DiaDeM Bangladesh 226/294 recruitments 🇵🇰 DiaDeM Pakistan The impact created & expected is great #TIIDE23

Excellent introduction to DiaDeM Programme of work by Faiza Aslam Please follow our twitter accounts for the latest news from the DiaDeM Pakistan DiaDeM Bangladesh over the coming months. Thanks for your great questions in the Q&A session #TIIDE23

Excellent presentation by Fakiha at #C4IANNUAL, who eloquently and confidently informed us reg the plans on how identification and management of depression will be tested thru task shifting at primary care level

Hi The Mental Elf, we had some great discussion this morning during our #MentalHealth theme panel at the #Centre4IMPACT Annual Meeting #C4IAnnual Discussed our planned research projects in Pakistan & Afghanistan Nifty Fox Creative captured key themes brilliantly in this live scribe⬇️

Diabetes theme team. Thank you all for all the good work. National Institute for Health and Care Research Centre for IMPACT @drzia_ulhaq Saima Afaq Institute of Public Health & Social Sciences _ KMU Khyber Medical University ORIC - Khyber Medical University, Peshawar #C4IANNUAL

"The greatest impact we've made is that we've got people taking about mental health together, in the same breath, as talking about chronic long-term [physical health] conditions." - Prof Najma Siddiqi Centre for IMPACT DiaDeM Pakistan DiaDeM Bangladesh #C4IANNUAL #Centre4IMPACT #TIIDE23

Faraz Siddiqi Faraz Siddiqui explains why we need to understand how people manage multiple illnesses (e.g. mental health and physical health at the same time) Centre for IMPACT Centre for IMPACT DiaDeM Pakistan DiaDeM Bangladesh #C4IANNUAL #Centre4IMPACT #TIIDE23

Today an international group of experts summarise a recent study by Gerardo Zavala et al, on the prevalence of physical health conditions & health risk behaviours in people with severe mental illness in South Asia nationalelfservice.net/?p=174987

It was an excellent workshop and we all learnt so much. Great to see the blog - Thanks very much The Mental Elf #C4IAnnual #TIIDE23