• COPE for adolescent Syrian refugees in Lebanon 

  Doumit, Rita; Kazandjian, Chant; Militello, Lisa K.

  Lebanon has the highest per-capita concentration of refugees worldwide. There is an urgent need to offer psychosocial interventions to vulnerable groups such as Syrian refugee adolescents. To assess the feasibility, ...
• Predictors of pressure injuries in a critical care unit in Lebanon 

  Doumit, Rita; El-Masri, Jihad; Zein-El-Dine, Salah; Zein, Bana; Kurdahi Badr, Lina

  The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with pressure injury in a medical-surgical intensive care unit (MSICU). DESIGN: Retrospective review of medical records. SUBJECTS AND SETTING: We ...
• Media, technology use, and attitudes 

  Doumit, Rita; Zeeni, Nadine; Sanchez-Ruiz, Maria-Jose; Abi-Kharma, Joelle

  Background Previous research has shown that the use of technology and media, in their different available forms, may have detrimental effects on the physical and mental well‐being of adolescents and young adults. Aims The ...
• Psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the 12-item diabetes fatalism scale 

  Bassil, Maya; Sukkarieh-Haraty, Ola; Egede, Leonard E.; Abi Kharma, Joelle

  Background There are widespread fatalistic beliefs in Arab countries, especially among individuals with diabetes. However, there is no tool to assess diabetes fatalism in this population. This study describes the processes ...
• Diabetes fatalism and its emotional distress subscale are independent predictors of glycemic control among Lebanese patients with type 2 diabetes 

  Bassil, Maya; Sukkarieh-Haraty, Ola; Abi Kharma, Joelle; Egede, Leonard E.

  Background: Achieving and sustaining optimal glycemic control in type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is difficult because of socio-cultural and psychosocial factors including diabetes fatalism. Diabetes fatalism is ‘a complex psychological ...
• Predictors of diabetes fatalism among Arabs 

  Bassil, Maya; Sukkarieh-Haraty, Ola; Abi Kharma, Joelle; Egede, Leonard E.; SAS; SON; 201102356; 201005492; Natural Sciences; mbassil@lau.edu.lb; ola.sukkarieh@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University

  Fatalism is a grounded cultural belief that is common among Arabs and is known to hinder self-care in chronic diseases including diabetes (Nabolsi and Carson in Scand J Caring Sci 25(4):716–724, 2011). The purpose of this ...
• Predictors of disordered eating in young males 

  Doumit, R.; Sanchez-Ruiz, M. J.; Zeeni, N.; Abi Kharma, J.

  Recent findings suggest that disordered eating (DE) symptomatology may be underestimated in the male population. The present study examined depressive symptomatology as a potential mediator of the relationships between ...
• Handbook of Arab American psychology 

  SON; 201606027; N/A; Kulwicki, Anahid; anahid.kulwicki@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (RoutledgeNew York, )
• Research in the social scientific study of religion, volume 20 

  SON; 201606027; N/A; Kulwicki, Anahid; Hassouneh, Dena; anahid.kulwicki@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
• Family and gender among American Muslims 

  SON; 201606027; N/A; Kulwicki, Anahid; anahid.kulwicki@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (Temple university press, )
• Health-related quality of life in adults with transfusion-independent thalassaemia intermedia compared to regularly transfused thalassaemia major 

  Abi-Habib, Rudy; Khoury, Brigitte; Musallam, Khaled M.; Bazzi, Lama; Succar, Julien; Halawi, Racha; Hamkir, Ahmed; Koussa, Suzanne; Taher, Ali T.

  Background: In patients with β thalassaemia intermedia (TI), the milder anaemia and transfusion independence imply better health-related quality of life (HR-QoL). However, the unbalanced pathophysiology of the disease ...
• Development of a domestic violence risk assessment tool for Arab American clients 

  Kulwicki, A.; Hymes, R.; Killawi, A.; Farrag, M.
• An ethnographic study of illness causation perceptions of Yemeni-Americans 

  Kulwicki, Anahid

  Kulwicki, A. N. A. H. I. D. (1991). An ethnographic study of illness causation perceptions of Yemeni-Americans. Michigan Academician, 23(1), 31-42.
• Predictors of Arab American adolescent tobacco use 

  Kulwicki, Anahid; Hammad, Adnan; Jamil, Hikmet; Rice, Virginia Hill; Templin, Thomas

  This study examined personal, psychosocial, sociocultural, and environmental predictors in tobacco use for 1671 Arab American adolescents. Cigarette smoking in past 30 days was 6.9%. This increased from 1% at age 14 to 14% ...
• Functional and psychosocial status of Haitians who became users of lower extremity prostheses as a result of the 2010 earthquake 

  Kulwicki, Anahid; Randolph, MArilys G.; Elbaum, Leonard; Wen, Pey-Shen; Brunt, Denis; LArsen, Jessy; De la Rosa, Mario

  The January 12, 2010 earthquake devastated Port-Au-Prince, the capital of the Republic of Haiti, and its surroundings. Among the 300,000 injured, 1,200 to 1,500 people underwent traumatic /surgical amputations. The purpose ...
• Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Arab American refugee and recent immigrant wormen 

  Kulwicki, Anahid; Ballout, Suha

  Routine male circumcision (RMC) has been found effective in preventing HIV infection in Africa; at the same time, incidence of HIV infection has been rising in China. Hence, RMC may be a possible means by which Chinese ...
• Culturally sensitive smoking cessation intervention program redesign for Arab-American youth 

  Kulwicki, Anahid; Al-Faouri, Ibrahim; Weglicki, Linda; Jamil, Hikmet; Baker, Omar; Al-Omran, Hasan; Dakroub, Mona; SON; 201606027; N/A; anahid.kulwicki@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
• Smoking behavior in pregnant Arab Americans 

  Kulwicki, Anahid; Smiley, Karen; Devine, Susan; SON; 201606027; N/A; anahid.kulwicki@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University

  Objectives: To determine the smoking behavior in pregnant Arab American women who attended a Women, Infant and Children (WIC) program at a local county public health clinic and compare the incidence of smoking behaviors ...
• An ethnographic study of illness perceptions and practices of Yemeni-Arabs in Michigan 

  Kulwicki, A.

  The purpose of this study was to explore the illness practices of Yemeni-Arab Americans and to generate illness themes based on informant reports. A convenient sample of 30 Yemeni-Arab American women was selected from ...
• Psychometric evaluation of the arabic language version of the profile of Mood States 

  Kulwicki, Anahid; Aroian, Karen J.; Kaskiri, Eleni A.; Templin, Thomas N.

  We estimated the psychometrics of the parent and a short form of the Arabic language version of the Profile of Mood States (POMS). A sample of 537 Arab immigrants completed the POMS and a battery of other measures. Data ...

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