Patricia Omidian

Biographic Data

ID658888
NAMEPatricia Omidian
GIVEN NAMESPatricia
FAMILY NAMEOmidian
SIGNATUREOMIDIAN P
AFFILIATIONSAga Khan University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS35
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX3

  • Per Diems in Polio Eradication

    Svea Closser, Anat Rosenthal et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2017Cited by: 4References: 24

    Nearly all global health initiatives give per diems to community health workers (CHWs) in poor countries for short-term work on disease-specific programs. We interviewed CHWs, supervisors, and high-level officials (n = 95) in 6 study sites across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia in early 2012 about the per diems given to them by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. These per diems for CHWs ranged from $1.50 to $2.40 per day. International of…

  • The Validity and Clinical Utility of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Afghanistan

    Open AccessK E Miller, Patricia A Omidian et al.ARTICLETranscultural Psychiatry2009Cited by: 9References: 23

    This study examined the validity and utility of PTSD among 320 adults in Afghanistan. Findings support the validity of PTSD in this cultural context: PTSD symptoms were highly prevalent, shared common variance, and correlated as expected with exposure to traumatic stress. However, only limited support was found for the clinical utility of PTSD. Other types of psychiatric symptomatology, including depression and a culturally specific measure of ge…

  • Daily Stressors, War Experiences, and Mental Health in Afghanistan

    Open AccessK E Miller, Patricia A Omidian et al.ARTICLETranscultural Psychiatry2008Cited by: 22References: 27

    Working in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, the authors assessed the relative contribution of daily stressors and war-related experiences of violence and loss to levels of depression, PTSD, impaired functioning, and a culturally specific measure of general psychological distress. For women, daily stressors were a better predictor than war experiences of all mental health outcomes except for PTSD; for men, daily stressors were a better predict…

  • The Afghan Symptom Checklist

    K E Miller, Patricia A Omidian et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry2006

    This article describes a methodology for developing culturally grounded assessment measures in conflict and postconflict situations. A mixed-method design was used in Kabul, Afghanistan, to identify local indicators of distress and develop the 22-item Afghan Symptom Checklist (ASCL). The ASCL contains several indigenous items and items familiar to Western mental health professionals. The ASCL was pilot tested and subsequently administered to 324 …

  • General Anthropology Division

    Open AccessJonathan Marks, Patricia A Omidian et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2000

  • Ethnic Coalitions and Public Health

    Patricia A Omidian, Patricia Omidian et al.ARTICLEHuman Organization1996

    Working with ethnic coalitions is new in public health. The Afghan Health Education Project was funded by the California State Health Department to establish an Afghan coalition, do a community health assessment and plan culture/language appropriate health education. We describe attempts to balance the contract expectations with the cultural/political realities of the Afghan community, e.g., the dilemma of empowering people who refuse to take pow…