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Investigating vulnerability for developing eating disorders in a multi-confessional population

Doumit, Rita; Khazen, Georges; Zeeni, Nadine; Kazandjian, Chant; Long, JoAnn; Katsounari, Ioanna; SAS; SON; 200200810; 201105253; 201000400; Computer Science and Mathematics; rita.doumit@lau.edu.lb; nadine.zeeni@lau.edu.lb; GKhazen@lau.edu.lb (2016-03-17)

The present study aimed to examine the vulnerability to eating disorders (ED) among 949 Lebanese female young adults as well as its association with stress, anxiety, depression, body image dissatisfaction (BID), dysfunctional ...
Anxiety as a moderator of the relationship between body image and restrained eating

Doumit, Rita; Zeeni, Nadine; Sanchez-Ruiz, Maria-José; Khazen, Georges; SAS; SON; 200200810; 201000400; 201005175; 201105253; rita.doumit@lau.edu.lb; nadine.zeeni@lau.edu.lb; maria-jose.sanchez-ruiz@lau.edu.lb; GKhazen@lau.edu.lb (2016-03-17)

Purpose To examine three indicators of psychopathology (stress, anxiety, and depression) as potential moderators of the relationship between body image dissatisfaction (BID) and restrained, emotional, and external eating, ...
Assessment of level of comfort in providing multicultural nursing care by baccalaureate nursing students

Kulwicki, A.; Boloink, B.J.

The purpose of this study was to measure the level of comfort in providing transcultural nursing care to clients of diverse cultural backgrounds by graduating baccalaureate students. The sample consisted of 71 senior ...
Cancer among Arab Americans in the metropolitan Detroit area

Kulwicki, Anahid; Schwartz, Kendra L.; Weiss, Linda K.; Fakhouri, Haifa; Sakr, Wael; Gregory, Kau; Severson, Richard K.

Detroit is home to one of the largest populations of Arab Americans outside of the Middle East, yet little is known about the cancer distribution in this ethnic group. The authors of this study created an Arab/Chaldean ...
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 ...
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 ...
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% ...
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.
Development of a domestic violence risk assessment tool for Arab American clients

Kulwicki, A.; Hymes, R.; Killawi, A.; Farrag, M.
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 ...
Family and gender among American Muslims

SON; 201606027; N/A; Kulwicki, Anahid; anahid.kulwicki@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (Temple university press, )
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...

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