Rashid Ahmed
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3582145 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rashid Ahmed |
| PRENOMES | Rashid |
| SOBRENOME | Ahmed |
| ASSINATURA | AHMED R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6346-6404 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
WPPSI-III in Sudan
The study aims to determine the validity and reliability of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence–Third Edition (WPPSI-III) scores in a sample of kindergarten and lower primary pupils from Khartoum State, Sudan. It also aims to examine whether test’s factor structure in this sample replicated that of the original WPPSI-III. The study sample consisted of 384 kindergarten and primary school children in Khartoum State (females = 5…
Poverty, protests and pandemics
No description supplied
Addressing punitive violence against children in Australia, Japan and the Philippines
Physical and emotional punishment of children is highly prevalent in the Asia-Pacific region. These actions predict a range of physical and emotional harms, prompting a worldwide effort to eliminate them. A key strategy in this effort is to change parental beliefs regarding the acceptability of physical and emotional punishment. The Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting (PDEP) program was designed to change those beliefs by teaching parents a…
Exploring Student Food Behaviour in Relation to Food Retail over the Time of Implementing Ontario’s School Food and Beverage Policy
Students have easy access to food retail in school neighbourhoods. The higher energy, sodium and sugar of these options present a health risk
Examining neighborhood and interpersonal norms and social support on fruit and vegetable intake in low-income communities
To our knowledge, no other studies have examined neighborhood, family, and peer norms and social support simultaneously and in relation to F&V intake. These findings may inform neighborhood interventions and community-level policies to reduce neighborhood disparities in F&V consumption
Posttreatment Drug Use Abstinence
The current study examines differences in organizational characteristics and client posttreatment drug use abstinence in residential substance abuse treatment programs serving clients with high or low levels of legal coercion to participate in treatment. The findings show that low legal coercion programs have higher counselor caseloads (Z = 59, p < .05) than high coercion programs. Although the results showed that programs with a large proportion…
Education quality, and teaching and learning in the post-2015 education agenda
South African, urban youth narratives
South African youth in low-income, urbanized communities are exposed to high levels of daily stressors, which increase their risk to negative outcomes. Resiliency can provide avenues for youth to transcend adversity and may contribute to their positive development. To provide a deeper understanding of the pathways that adolescents use to overcome adversity, this paper examined future aspirations of South African youth, and how these aspirations w…
Clinical psychology training in South Africa
With the profession of clinical psychology and its formal training programmes less than 40 years old in South Africa, it is important that efforts are made to critically examine its challenges and the extent to which it is meeting the prevailing mental health needs. The profession has gone through a chequered history in South Africa and needs to look at how it realigns its goals and practices, to be in tune with the imperatives of democracy, and …
Perceptions of gender-based violence among South African youth
Gender-based violence is a widespread problem in South Africa. Past structural inequities have created a climate conducive to violence against women. As an initial step toward developing a health promotion program, we conducted exploratory formative research to examine the barriers that affect the health and well-being of youth. Fourteen focus groups (nine with girls and five with boys) were conducted with 112 adolescents in a racially mixed comm…
Education quality in post‐apartheid South African policy
In spite of numerous definitions of quality, consensus on what constitutes quality is less clear and contested. Using South Africa as a case study, this paper explores the current conceptual thinking and debates about education quality. Specifically the paper reviews selected South African policy texts to identify how some of the global dimensions of quality map onto South African policy discourse. The paper begins by reviewing some of the concep…
Prevalence of Smokeless Tobacco Use Among Canadian Youth Between 2004 and 2008
Smoking Susceptibility Among Never-Smokers
Illicit Substance Use Among Canadian Youth
Factors Associated with Different Cigarette Access Behaviours Among Underage Smoking Youth Who Usually Smoke Contraband (Native) Cigarettes
Community researchers conducting health disparities research
Cancer Perceptions of South African Mothers and Daughters
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. A major reason why women do not obtain cancer screening procedures relates to the high levels of fear associated with cancer. In this study, we explored South African mothers' and daughters' reaction to the word "cancer" specifically. The study sample included 157 randomly selected mother and adolescent daughter pairs from an urban community in Cape Town, South Africa. Mothers and their adol…
Alcohol, Marijuana, and Tobacco Use Among Canadian Youth
Cumulative effect of multiple trauma on symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression in adolescents
Cigarette brand preference as a function of price among smoking youths in Canada
Discount and native cigarette brands are commonly used by a substantial number of smoking youths in Canada. Additional research is required to better understand the reasons behind different cigarette brand preferences and how youths are able to access premium, discount and illicit native cigarettes. Moreover, ongoing surveillance of the cigarette brand preferences of youths is required for guiding future tobacco control policy and programming act…
Promoting access and enhancing education opportunities? The case of ‘no‐fees schools’ in South Africa
Public financing of education in the developing world context combines public and private funds, and the utilisation of fees is seen as a way of complementing state resources. In South Africa the new government in 1994 permitted schools to charge fees, a policy that has provoked much controversy. While different aspects of this policy have been well documented, less is known about the decision to review this policy and declare certain schools as …
School Smoking Policy Characteristics and Individual Perceptions of the School Tobacco Context
The purpose of this study was to explore individual- and school-level policy characteristics on student smoking behavior using an ecological perspective. Participants were 24,213 (51% female) Grade 10-11 students from 81 schools in five Canadian provinces. Data were collected using student self-report surveys, written policies collected from schools, interviews with school administrators, and school property observations to assess multiple dimens…
A Family-based Intervention to Promote Healthy Lifestyles in an Aboriginal Community in Canada
Discerning Community Resilience in Disadvantaged Communities in the Context of Violence and Injury Prevention
The study of community resilience is a relatively under-explored area. Accordingly, in an attempt to further our understanding of community resilience, we present a study focused on the development of a questionnaire to assess and delineate the nature of community resilience across three low socio-economic neighbourhoods in the Western Cape. The study embraced a participatory framework that incorporated several phases. Data indicated significant …
Cognitive Aspects of Bilingualism. Part 2. Internal Representation
In this article we review and evaluate different explanations of the structure of the bilingual lexicon and of the internal representation of the two languages. We present evidence for and against shared or separate internal representation, and consider different conceptual models of bilingualism. We propose a theoretical model to explain the manner in which bilinguals process information. The theory extends the information-processing model devel…
Clinical psychology training in South Africa
With the profession of clinical psychology and its formal training programmes less than 40 years old in South Africa, it is important that efforts are made to critically examine its challenges and the extent to which it is meeting the prevailing mental health needs. The profession has gone through a chequered history in South Africa and needs to look at how it realigns its goals and practices, to be in tune with the imperatives of democracy, and …
Community researchers conducting health disparities research
Discerning Community Resilience in Disadvantaged Communities in the Context of Violence and Injury Prevention
The study of community resilience is a relatively under-explored area. Accordingly, in an attempt to further our understanding of community resilience, we present a study focused on the development of a questionnaire to assess and delineate the nature of community resilience across three low socio-economic neighbourhoods in the Western Cape. The study embraced a participatory framework that incorporated several phases. Data indicated significant …
Education quality, and teaching and learning in the post-2015 education agenda
Promoting access and enhancing education opportunities? The case of ‘no‐fees schools’ in South Africa
Public financing of education in the developing world context combines public and private funds, and the utilisation of fees is seen as a way of complementing state resources. In South Africa the new government in 1994 permitted schools to charge fees, a policy that has provoked much controversy. While different aspects of this policy have been well documented, less is known about the decision to review this policy and declare certain schools as …
Education quality in post‐apartheid South African policy
In spite of numerous definitions of quality, consensus on what constitutes quality is less clear and contested. Using South Africa as a case study, this paper explores the current conceptual thinking and debates about education quality. Specifically the paper reviews selected South African policy texts to identify how some of the global dimensions of quality map onto South African policy discourse. The paper begins by reviewing some of the concep…
School Smoking Policy Characteristics and Individual Perceptions of the School Tobacco Context
The purpose of this study was to explore individual- and school-level policy characteristics on student smoking behavior using an ecological perspective. Participants were 24,213 (51% female) Grade 10-11 students from 81 schools in five Canadian provinces. Data were collected using student self-report surveys, written policies collected from schools, interviews with school administrators, and school property observations to assess multiple dimens…
A Family-based Intervention to Promote Healthy Lifestyles in an Aboriginal Community in Canada
Poverty, protests and pandemics
No description supplied
Illicit Substance Use Among Canadian Youth
Cognitive Aspects of Bilingualism. Part 2. Internal Representation
In this article we review and evaluate different explanations of the structure of the bilingual lexicon and of the internal representation of the two languages. We present evidence for and against shared or separate internal representation, and consider different conceptual models of bilingualism. We propose a theoretical model to explain the manner in which bilinguals process information. The theory extends the information-processing model devel…
Cognitive Aspects of Bilingualism. Part 1. External Features
In this review we evaluate definitions of bilingualism, its nature and scope, and types of bilinguals. We indicate the importance of assessing the degree of bilingualism accurately, and delineate some of the difficulties associated with evaluating it. We discuss bilingualism and biscriptalism, and reading different orthographies. Finally we place these issues within the context of English — Afrikaans bilingualism in South Africa
Discerning Community Resilience in Disadvantaged Communities in the Context of Violence and Injury Prevention
The study of community resilience is a relatively under-explored area. Accordingly, in an attempt to further our understanding of community resilience, we present a study focused on the development of a questionnaire to assess and delineate the nature of community resilience across three low socio-economic neighbourhoods in the Western Cape. The study embraced a participatory framework that incorporated several phases. Data indicated significant …
A Family-based Intervention to Promote Healthy Lifestyles in an Aboriginal Community in Canada
Cumulative effect of multiple trauma on symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression in adolescents
Cigarette brand preference as a function of price among smoking youths in Canada
Discount and native cigarette brands are commonly used by a substantial number of smoking youths in Canada. Additional research is required to better understand the reasons behind different cigarette brand preferences and how youths are able to access premium, discount and illicit native cigarettes. Moreover, ongoing surveillance of the cigarette brand preferences of youths is required for guiding future tobacco control policy and programming act…
Promoting access and enhancing education opportunities? The case of ‘no‐fees schools’ in South Africa
Public financing of education in the developing world context combines public and private funds, and the utilisation of fees is seen as a way of complementing state resources. In South Africa the new government in 1994 permitted schools to charge fees, a policy that has provoked much controversy. While different aspects of this policy have been well documented, less is known about the decision to review this policy and declare certain schools as …
School Smoking Policy Characteristics and Individual Perceptions of the School Tobacco Context
The purpose of this study was to explore individual- and school-level policy characteristics on student smoking behavior using an ecological perspective. Participants were 24,213 (51% female) Grade 10-11 students from 81 schools in five Canadian provinces. Data were collected using student self-report surveys, written policies collected from schools, interviews with school administrators, and school property observations to assess multiple dimens…
Cancer Perceptions of South African Mothers and Daughters
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. A major reason why women do not obtain cancer screening procedures relates to the high levels of fear associated with cancer. In this study, we explored South African mothers' and daughters' reaction to the word "cancer" specifically. The study sample included 157 randomly selected mother and adolescent daughter pairs from an urban community in Cape Town, South Africa. Mothers and their adol…
Alcohol, Marijuana, and Tobacco Use Among Canadian Youth
Education quality in post‐apartheid South African policy
In spite of numerous definitions of quality, consensus on what constitutes quality is less clear and contested. Using South Africa as a case study, this paper explores the current conceptual thinking and debates about education quality. Specifically the paper reviews selected South African policy texts to identify how some of the global dimensions of quality map onto South African policy discourse. The paper begins by reviewing some of the concep…
Prevalence of Smokeless Tobacco Use Among Canadian Youth Between 2004 and 2008
Smoking Susceptibility Among Never-Smokers
Illicit Substance Use Among Canadian Youth
Factors Associated with Different Cigarette Access Behaviours Among Underage Smoking Youth Who Usually Smoke Contraband (Native) Cigarettes
Community researchers conducting health disparities research
Perceptions of gender-based violence among South African youth
Gender-based violence is a widespread problem in South Africa. Past structural inequities have created a climate conducive to violence against women. As an initial step toward developing a health promotion program, we conducted exploratory formative research to examine the barriers that affect the health and well-being of youth. Fourteen focus groups (nine with girls and five with boys) were conducted with 112 adolescents in a racially mixed comm…
South African, urban youth narratives
South African youth in low-income, urbanized communities are exposed to high levels of daily stressors, which increase their risk to negative outcomes. Resiliency can provide avenues for youth to transcend adversity and may contribute to their positive development. To provide a deeper understanding of the pathways that adolescents use to overcome adversity, this paper examined future aspirations of South African youth, and how these aspirations w…
Clinical psychology training in South Africa
With the profession of clinical psychology and its formal training programmes less than 40 years old in South Africa, it is important that efforts are made to critically examine its challenges and the extent to which it is meeting the prevailing mental health needs. The profession has gone through a chequered history in South Africa and needs to look at how it realigns its goals and practices, to be in tune with the imperatives of democracy, and …
Posttreatment Drug Use Abstinence
The current study examines differences in organizational characteristics and client posttreatment drug use abstinence in residential substance abuse treatment programs serving clients with high or low levels of legal coercion to participate in treatment. The findings show that low legal coercion programs have higher counselor caseloads (Z = 59, p < .05) than high coercion programs. Although the results showed that programs with a large proportion…
Education quality, and teaching and learning in the post-2015 education agenda
Examining neighborhood and interpersonal norms and social support on fruit and vegetable intake in low-income communities
To our knowledge, no other studies have examined neighborhood, family, and peer norms and social support simultaneously and in relation to F&V intake. These findings may inform neighborhood interventions and community-level policies to reduce neighborhood disparities in F&V consumption
Exploring Student Food Behaviour in Relation to Food Retail over the Time of Implementing Ontario’s School Food and Beverage Policy
Students have easy access to food retail in school neighbourhoods. The higher energy, sodium and sugar of these options present a health risk
Addressing punitive violence against children in Australia, Japan and the Philippines
Physical and emotional punishment of children is highly prevalent in the Asia-Pacific region. These actions predict a range of physical and emotional harms, prompting a worldwide effort to eliminate them. A key strategy in this effort is to change parental beliefs regarding the acceptability of physical and emotional punishment. The Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting (PDEP) program was designed to change those beliefs by teaching parents a…
Poverty, protests and pandemics
No description supplied
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