Aliriza Arenliu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 320454 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Aliriza Arenliu |
| PRENOMES | Aliriza |
| SOBRENOME | Arenliu |
| ASSINATURA | ARENLIU A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Prishtina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7016-4188 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
School Violence and Student Psychological Distress
Developing and Piloting a Low-Intensity Family Support Intervention for Syrian Refugees
Background.This study developed and pilot tested a transdiagnostic family intervention for urban refugee families in LMICs with limited to no access to evidence-based mental health services using a task-sharing approach.Methods.A Family Support Design Team designed the Low Intensity Family Support (LIFS) model, trained the facilitators, and oversaw the implementation.The model was piloted with 70 Syrian refugee families (n=111 adolescents and n=1…
Classroom-Based Experiential Learning
Background: Studies show that key significant variables related to effectiveness of teaching and learning are students' attitudes towards learning, teacher competencies and teaching methodologies applied (Riera et. al, 2023; Glazier & Bean, 2019; Mulala, 2015; Amirtha & Jebaseelan, 2015). Purpose: To explore changes in primary student attitudes towards learning pre- and post-implementation of a curriculum based on experiential learning methodolog…
Human Trafficking Survivors and Key Stakeholders' Perspectives on Reintegration Pathways in Kosovo
Attentional Bias Among High and Low Ruminators
Rumination, which can be studied through its associated attentional biases, and is a part of the RDoC Negative Valence Systems constructs of Loss, has been proposed as a key transdiagnostic feature in depression. The current study uses eye tracking measurements to explore how different levels of brooding and reflection rumination interact with attentional biases in a non-clinical sample of high and low ruminators. Methodology: 123 adults were adm…
Clozapine prescription rates in Southeast Europe
Our findings suggested that clozapine prescription rate in SEE outpatients is higher than in Western Europe. The average dose is significantly below the optimal therapeutic dosage recommended by clinical guidelines, and clozapine polytherapy is common. This might indicate that clozapine is prescribed mainly for its sedative effect rather than antipsychotic. We hope that this finding will be taken up by relevant stakeholders to address this non-ev…
Factor structure of the brief psychiatric rating scale-expanded among outpatients with psychotic disorders in five Southeast European countries
The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) is a useful tool for measuring the severity of psychopathological symptoms among patients with psychosis. Many studies, predominantly in Western countries, have investigated its factor structure. This study has the following aims: (a) to further explore the factor structure of the BPRS-Expanded version (BPRS-E, 24 items) among outpatients with psychotic disorders in Southeast European countries; (b) to co…
The relations between socio-demographic information and negative symptoms, mental health, and quality of life
The current study aims to identify meaningful psychotic patients' profiles by examining certain combinations of patient's demographic and socio-economic variables (sex, age, marital status, number of children, cohabitant and level of education). Moreover, we aim to assess whether there is any significant effect of class membership (profile) on negative symptoms, health state, and quality of life among psychotic patients. A convenience sample of 1…
Challenges faced by university students during the Covid ‐19
This study focused on the specific challenges of university students in the face of the COVID‐19 pandemic and examined similarities and differences in COVID‐related concerns and difficulties in functioning in samples of undergraduate students in five countries. A sample of 4306 undergraduate university students (43.8% males, 56.2% females) from Israel, Kosovo, Ukraine, Cyprus and Germany participated in an anonymous online survey during the first…
Prevalence of Perceived Stress, Anxiety, and Depression in HCW in Kosovo during the Covid-19 Pandemic
A pandemic may have a negative impact on healthcare workers' (HCW) mental health. In this cross-sectional study, we assess the self-reported prevalence of stress, anxiety, and depression and identify their predictive factors among HCW in Kosovo. The online questionnaire collected data on socio-demographics (sex, age, occupation, education, workplace) and the presence and severity of depression, anxiety, and stress through the 21-item Depression, …
Social Environmental Factors and Personal Motivational Factors Associated with Creative Achievement
Although the theory of the socio‐cultural approach to creativity is gaining steam, empirical studies with advanced statistical tools are lagging behind. To address the gap of empirical studies integrating individual, social environmental, and cultural factors, we examined how motivational factors and environmental responsiveness were jointly related to college students’ creative achievement in different nations. Participants were university stude…
Exploring Factor Validity of 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) in Albanian Clinical and Nonclinical Samples
This study aims to examine the factor structure and validity of the Albanian TAS-20 (Toronto Alexithymia Scale) using a sample comprised of 342 students and 196 patients from a psychiatric clinic. Based on a literature review of studies of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), three types of models were tested: first-order models with method factors and covariances, a second-order model with method factors and covariances, and nested models with me…
Conducting research on building psychosocial support for Syrian refugee families in a humanitarian emergency
Conducting research in humanitarian emergency settings calls for innovative collaborative and multidisciplinary approaches to understanding and addressing many sociocultural, contextual, practical and scientific challenge
Structure of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia
Background: Negative symptoms are core features of schizophrenia and very challenging to be treated. Identification of their structure is crucial to provide a better treatment. Increasing evidence supports the superiority of a five-factor model (alogia, blunted affect, anhedonia, avolition, and asociality as defined by the NMIH-MATRICS Consensus); however, previous data primarily used the Brief Negative Symptoms Scale (BNSS). This study, includin…
Child Discipline Practices in Kosovo
Socio-demographic associates of tolerant attitudes toward intimate partner violence against women in Kosovo
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is one of the most common forms of the violence against women. IPV involves but is not limited to physical, sexual and emotional abuse and controlling behaviour by an intimate partner (WHO, 2012). This paper aimed to explore the gender differences and socio-demographic factors associated with attitudes on IPV against women using a representative sample in Kosovo. This article relies on secondary data analysis of th…
Global mental health and the National Institute of Mental Health Research Domain Criteria
BACKGROUND: The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project presents innovative ways of investigating mental illness based on behavioral and neurobiological measures of dimensional processes. Although cultural psychiatrists have critiqued RDoC's implications and limitations for its under-developed focus on context and experience, RDoC presents opportunities for synergies with global mental health. It can cap…
Posttraumatic Growth Among Family Members With Missing Persons From War in Kosovo
There is almost no data on the role of social support and in general on posttraumatic growth among people who have missing family member(s) as result of war and who experience ambiguous loss. This study explores relationship between reported posttraumatic growth and perceived social support and social activism in community-based organizations dealing directly with issues of missing persons. Family members who reported higher levels of social supp…
Social networks and mental health in post-conflict Mitrovica, Kosova
This study has shown that only one variety of social network--contact with friends--was important in terms of mental health outcomes in a population living in an area heavily affected by conflict. This suggests that the relation between social networks and mental health may be complex in that the effects of different forms of social network on mental health are not uniform and may depend on the way social networks are operationalised and the part…
Human Trafficking Survivors and Key Stakeholders' Perspectives on Reintegration Pathways in Kosovo
Child Discipline Practices in Kosovo
Socio-demographic associates of tolerant attitudes toward intimate partner violence against women in Kosovo
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is one of the most common forms of the violence against women. IPV involves but is not limited to physical, sexual and emotional abuse and controlling behaviour by an intimate partner (WHO, 2012). This paper aimed to explore the gender differences and socio-demographic factors associated with attitudes on IPV against women using a representative sample in Kosovo. This article relies on secondary data analysis of th…
Social networks and mental health in post-conflict Mitrovica, Kosova
This study has shown that only one variety of social network--contact with friends--was important in terms of mental health outcomes in a population living in an area heavily affected by conflict. This suggests that the relation between social networks and mental health may be complex in that the effects of different forms of social network on mental health are not uniform and may depend on the way social networks are operationalised and the part…
Posttraumatic Growth Among Family Members With Missing Persons From War in Kosovo
There is almost no data on the role of social support and in general on posttraumatic growth among people who have missing family member(s) as result of war and who experience ambiguous loss. This study explores relationship between reported posttraumatic growth and perceived social support and social activism in community-based organizations dealing directly with issues of missing persons. Family members who reported higher levels of social supp…
Global mental health and the National Institute of Mental Health Research Domain Criteria
BACKGROUND: The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project presents innovative ways of investigating mental illness based on behavioral and neurobiological measures of dimensional processes. Although cultural psychiatrists have critiqued RDoC's implications and limitations for its under-developed focus on context and experience, RDoC presents opportunities for synergies with global mental health. It can cap…
Socio-demographic associates of tolerant attitudes toward intimate partner violence against women in Kosovo
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is one of the most common forms of the violence against women. IPV involves but is not limited to physical, sexual and emotional abuse and controlling behaviour by an intimate partner (WHO, 2012). This paper aimed to explore the gender differences and socio-demographic factors associated with attitudes on IPV against women using a representative sample in Kosovo. This article relies on secondary data analysis of th…
Social Environmental Factors and Personal Motivational Factors Associated with Creative Achievement
Although the theory of the socio‐cultural approach to creativity is gaining steam, empirical studies with advanced statistical tools are lagging behind. To address the gap of empirical studies integrating individual, social environmental, and cultural factors, we examined how motivational factors and environmental responsiveness were jointly related to college students’ creative achievement in different nations. Participants were university stude…
Exploring Factor Validity of 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) in Albanian Clinical and Nonclinical Samples
This study aims to examine the factor structure and validity of the Albanian TAS-20 (Toronto Alexithymia Scale) using a sample comprised of 342 students and 196 patients from a psychiatric clinic. Based on a literature review of studies of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), three types of models were tested: first-order models with method factors and covariances, a second-order model with method factors and covariances, and nested models with me…
Conducting research on building psychosocial support for Syrian refugee families in a humanitarian emergency
Conducting research in humanitarian emergency settings calls for innovative collaborative and multidisciplinary approaches to understanding and addressing many sociocultural, contextual, practical and scientific challenge
Structure of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia
Background: Negative symptoms are core features of schizophrenia and very challenging to be treated. Identification of their structure is crucial to provide a better treatment. Increasing evidence supports the superiority of a five-factor model (alogia, blunted affect, anhedonia, avolition, and asociality as defined by the NMIH-MATRICS Consensus); however, previous data primarily used the Brief Negative Symptoms Scale (BNSS). This study, includin…
Child Discipline Practices in Kosovo
Challenges faced by university students during the Covid ‐19
This study focused on the specific challenges of university students in the face of the COVID‐19 pandemic and examined similarities and differences in COVID‐related concerns and difficulties in functioning in samples of undergraduate students in five countries. A sample of 4306 undergraduate university students (43.8% males, 56.2% females) from Israel, Kosovo, Ukraine, Cyprus and Germany participated in an anonymous online survey during the first…
Prevalence of Perceived Stress, Anxiety, and Depression in HCW in Kosovo during the Covid-19 Pandemic
A pandemic may have a negative impact on healthcare workers' (HCW) mental health. In this cross-sectional study, we assess the self-reported prevalence of stress, anxiety, and depression and identify their predictive factors among HCW in Kosovo. The online questionnaire collected data on socio-demographics (sex, age, occupation, education, workplace) and the presence and severity of depression, anxiety, and stress through the 21-item Depression, …
Attentional Bias Among High and Low Ruminators
Rumination, which can be studied through its associated attentional biases, and is a part of the RDoC Negative Valence Systems constructs of Loss, has been proposed as a key transdiagnostic feature in depression. The current study uses eye tracking measurements to explore how different levels of brooding and reflection rumination interact with attentional biases in a non-clinical sample of high and low ruminators. Methodology: 123 adults were adm…
Clozapine prescription rates in Southeast Europe
Our findings suggested that clozapine prescription rate in SEE outpatients is higher than in Western Europe. The average dose is significantly below the optimal therapeutic dosage recommended by clinical guidelines, and clozapine polytherapy is common. This might indicate that clozapine is prescribed mainly for its sedative effect rather than antipsychotic. We hope that this finding will be taken up by relevant stakeholders to address this non-ev…
Factor structure of the brief psychiatric rating scale-expanded among outpatients with psychotic disorders in five Southeast European countries
The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) is a useful tool for measuring the severity of psychopathological symptoms among patients with psychosis. Many studies, predominantly in Western countries, have investigated its factor structure. This study has the following aims: (a) to further explore the factor structure of the BPRS-Expanded version (BPRS-E, 24 items) among outpatients with psychotic disorders in Southeast European countries; (b) to co…
The relations between socio-demographic information and negative symptoms, mental health, and quality of life
The current study aims to identify meaningful psychotic patients' profiles by examining certain combinations of patient's demographic and socio-economic variables (sex, age, marital status, number of children, cohabitant and level of education). Moreover, we aim to assess whether there is any significant effect of class membership (profile) on negative symptoms, health state, and quality of life among psychotic patients. A convenience sample of 1…
Classroom-Based Experiential Learning
Background: Studies show that key significant variables related to effectiveness of teaching and learning are students' attitudes towards learning, teacher competencies and teaching methodologies applied (Riera et. al, 2023; Glazier & Bean, 2019; Mulala, 2015; Amirtha & Jebaseelan, 2015). Purpose: To explore changes in primary student attitudes towards learning pre- and post-implementation of a curriculum based on experiential learning methodolog…
Human Trafficking Survivors and Key Stakeholders' Perspectives on Reintegration Pathways in Kosovo
School Violence and Student Psychological Distress
Developing and Piloting a Low-Intensity Family Support Intervention for Syrian Refugees
Background.This study developed and pilot tested a transdiagnostic family intervention for urban refugee families in LMICs with limited to no access to evidence-based mental health services using a task-sharing approach.Methods.A Family Support Design Team designed the Low Intensity Family Support (LIFS) model, trained the facilitators, and oversaw the implementation.The model was piloted with 70 Syrian refugee families (n=111 adolescents and n=1…
Psychology (14 obras) · Medicine (12 obras) · Psychiatry (11 obras) · Clinical Psychology (7 obras) · Migration, Health and Trauma (7 obras) · Mental health (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Clinical Psychology (5 obras) · Developmental psychology (5 obras) · Environmental health (5 obras)