M Fakhr El-Islam
Biographic Data
| ID | 127948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Fakhr El-Islam |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Fakhr |
| FAMILY NAME | El-Islam |
| SIGNATURE | EL-ISLAM M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kuwait University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Arab Culture and Mental Health Care
This selective review describes recent literature and the author's experience with mental illness and mental health care, and the impact of cultural transformation on mental health in some Arab Islamic cultures, particularly in Egypt, Qatar and Kuwait. Traditional extended Arab families provide a structure for their members that may sometimes prevent and or compensate for the effects of parental loss and mental disability. The role of traditional…
Schneiderian First Rank Symptoms in A Sample of Schizophrenic Patients in Egypt
Background: Schneiderian first rank symptoms are included in the most influential operative diagnostic criteria, such as the ICD-10 and the DSM-IV. Many studies have examined their prevalence in the West, but their prevalence in non-Western countries still needs to be explored given that cultural beliefs are so different. Aims: The aim of this study is to shed some light on Schneiderian first rank symptoms (FRS) as they occur in patients with sch…
Lay Explanations of Symptoms of Mental Ill Health in Kuwait
The cognitive schemas of 208 subjects were elicited in relation to 12 hypothetical symptoms which are most commonly presented by patients suffering from psychiatric disorder. Three types of explaining schemas were recognised as physical, psychosocial and supernatural explanations. Somatic symptoms tended to have physical explanations and emotional symptoms tended to have psychoso cial explanations although both are known in clinical practice to i…
Factors Influencing Long-Term Psychiatric Hospitalisation of the Elderly in Kuwait
In this study both psychosocial and clinical aspects of elderly patients were investigated in relation to long hospital stay in the only psychiatric hospital in Kuwait. Patients with longer stay did not differ statistically from short stay patients in distributions of sex, age, nationality, marital status, family system, diagnostic categories or factors blocking patients' discharge from hospital. Significant association was found between withdraw…
Oral contraceptives, sociocultural beliefs and psychiatric symptoms
Abstracts and Reviews
Abstracts and Reviews
Life Events and Depression in Transit Populations
Undesirable recent life events in the period of three months preceding primary depressive illness were studied in two Arabian Gulf countries: Qatar (235 patients) and Kuwait (164 patients). Transit population patients, who come to these countries from employment, differ from native patients in the significant predominance of work as a source of recent life events. The difference is discussed in relation to the existential committments and attitud…
The Effect of Islamic Sharia on Behavioural Disturbances in the Kingdom
Arabic Cultural Psychiatry
Abstracts and Reviews
NEXT ARTICLEAbstracts and Reviews : SYMPTOM ONSET AND INVOLUTION OF DELUSIONS by M. FAKHR EL-ISLAM. Social Psychiatry 15 (1980): 157-60
The Educational and Occupational Correlates of Psychiatric Disorder
Arabic Cultural Psychiatry
Arab Culture and Mental Health Care
This selective review describes recent literature and the author's experience with mental illness and mental health care, and the impact of cultural transformation on mental health in some Arab Islamic cultures, particularly in Egypt, Qatar and Kuwait. Traditional extended Arab families provide a structure for their members that may sometimes prevent and or compensate for the effects of parental loss and mental disability. The role of traditional…
Oral contraceptives, sociocultural beliefs and psychiatric symptoms
The Educational and Occupational Correlates of Psychiatric Disorder
Abstracts and Reviews
NEXT ARTICLEAbstracts and Reviews : SYMPTOM ONSET AND INVOLUTION OF DELUSIONS by M. FAKHR EL-ISLAM. Social Psychiatry 15 (1980): 157-60
Arabic Cultural Psychiatry
Life Events and Depression in Transit Populations
Undesirable recent life events in the period of three months preceding primary depressive illness were studied in two Arabian Gulf countries: Qatar (235 patients) and Kuwait (164 patients). Transit population patients, who come to these countries from employment, differ from native patients in the significant predominance of work as a source of recent life events. The difference is discussed in relation to the existential committments and attitud…
The Effect of Islamic Sharia on Behavioural Disturbances in the Kingdom
Abstracts and Reviews
Abstracts and Reviews
Oral contraceptives, sociocultural beliefs and psychiatric symptoms
Factors Influencing Long-Term Psychiatric Hospitalisation of the Elderly in Kuwait
In this study both psychosocial and clinical aspects of elderly patients were investigated in relation to long hospital stay in the only psychiatric hospital in Kuwait. Patients with longer stay did not differ statistically from short stay patients in distributions of sex, age, nationality, marital status, family system, diagnostic categories or factors blocking patients' discharge from hospital. Significant association was found between withdraw…
Lay Explanations of Symptoms of Mental Ill Health in Kuwait
The cognitive schemas of 208 subjects were elicited in relation to 12 hypothetical symptoms which are most commonly presented by patients suffering from psychiatric disorder. Three types of explaining schemas were recognised as physical, psychosocial and supernatural explanations. Somatic symptoms tended to have physical explanations and emotional symptoms tended to have psychoso cial explanations although both are known in clinical practice to i…
Schneiderian First Rank Symptoms in A Sample of Schizophrenic Patients in Egypt
Background: Schneiderian first rank symptoms are included in the most influential operative diagnostic criteria, such as the ICD-10 and the DSM-IV. Many studies have examined their prevalence in the West, but their prevalence in non-Western countries still needs to be explored given that cultural beliefs are so different. Aims: The aim of this study is to shed some light on Schneiderian first rank symptoms (FRS) as they occur in patients with sch…
Arab Culture and Mental Health Care
This selective review describes recent literature and the author's experience with mental illness and mental health care, and the impact of cultural transformation on mental health in some Arab Islamic cultures, particularly in Egypt, Qatar and Kuwait. Traditional extended Arab families provide a structure for their members that may sometimes prevent and or compensate for the effects of parental loss and mental disability. The role of traditional…
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