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Loneliness among dementia caregivers: evaluation of the psychometric properties...
Ali, Amira Mohammed; Al-Dossary, Saeed A.; Laranjeira, Carlos; Selim, Abeer; Hallit, Souheil; Alkhamees, Abdulmajeed A.; Aljubilah, Aljawharah FahadIntroduction: Dementia is a chronic progressive syndrome, with an entire loss of function in the late stages. The care of this demanding condition is primarily provided by family members, who often suffer from chronic burnout, distress, and loneliness. This instrumental study aimed to examine the factor structure, reliability, convergent validity, criterion validity, and cutoff scores of a short loneliness meas...
Cardiometabolic Morbidity (Obesity and Hypertension) in PTSD: A Preliminary Inv...
Ali, Amira Mohammed; Al-Dossary, Saeed A.; Laranjeira, Carlos; Atout, Maha; Khatatbeh, Haitham; Selim, Abeer; Alkhamees, Abdulmajeed A.Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and/or specific PTSD symptoms may evoke maladaptive behaviors (e.g., compulsive buying, disordered eating, and an unhealthy lifestyle), resulting in adverse cardiometabolic events (e.g., hypertension and obesity), which may implicate the treatment of this complex condition. The diagnostic criteria for PTSD have lately expanded beyond the three common symptoms (in...