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The relationship between sleep duration and health status in Qatar’s population
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Knowledge of sleep duration correlates is limited to developed countries with a lack of studies in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). Qatar is a rapidly developing country in the EMR with three distinct population ...
Associations between weight loss difficulty, disordered eating behaviors and poor weight loss outcomes in Arab female university students
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Little is known about the impact of eating behaviors on weight management efforts among college students in non-Western settings. This study aimed to explore the relationship between eating behaviors, weight loss outcomes, ...
Lifetime prevalence and potential determinants of psychotic experiences in the general population of Qatar
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Cambridge University Press
, 2020 , Article)
Background To estimate the lifetime prevalence and potential determinants of psychotic experience(s) (PEs) in the general population of Qatar-a small non-war afflicted, conservative, high-income, middle-eastern country ...
Conducting a state-of-the-art mental health survey in a traditional setting: Challenges and lessons from piloting the World Mental Health Survey in Qatar
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Wiley
, 2021 , Article)
Objectives: A small country in the Arabian Peninsula, Qatar experienced rapid economic growth in the last 3 decades accompanied by major socio-demographic shifts towards a younger and more highly educated population. To ...
Psychotic-like experiences among university female students in Qatar: A qualitative-phenomenological study
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Frontiers Media
, 2022 , Article)
Background and aims: Psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) are hallucinatory or delusional experiences that fall below the threshold of a diagnosable psychotic disorder. Although PLEs are common across the spectrum of psychiatric ...
The Arabic Questionnaire for Psychotic Experiences in patients with psychotic disorders: a clinical validation
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BioMed Central Ltd
, 2023 , Article)
Background: Psychotic experiences are reported in the general population. The Questionnaire for Psychotic Experiences (QPE) was created to test the phenomenological features of these experiences and compare them with those ...
Prevalence and potential determinants of covid-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in qatar: Results from a nationally representative survey of qatari nationals and migrants between december 2020 and january 2021
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MDPI AG
, 2021 , Article)
Global COVID-19 pandemic containment necessitates understanding the risk of hesitance or resistance to vaccine uptake in different populations. The Middle East and North Africa currently lack vital representative vaccine ...
Cross-cultural Differences in Hallucinations: A Comparison Between Middle Eastern and European Community-Based Samples
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Oxford University Press
, 2023 , Article)
BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS: While literature indicates that culture modulates phenomenological characteristics of hallucinations in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, little is known about the extent culture modulates these ...
Association between health information seeking and behaviour change related to physical activity among Qatari adolescents
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2023 , Article)
This study aims to assess the influence of used information sources on behaviour change related to physical activity (PA). It analyses secondary data from a nationally representative cross-sectional survey conducted in ...