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Intervention Effectiveness Among War-Affected Children: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial on Improving Mental Health (vol 25, pg 288, 2012)

Qouta, Samir; Palosaari, Esa; Diab, Marwan; Punamaki, Raija-Leena (WILEY, 2018)

We examined the effectiveness of a psychosocial intervention in reducing mental health symptoms among war-affected children, and the role of peritraumatic dissociation in moderating the intervention impact on posttraumatic ...

The protective role of maternal post-traumatic growth and cognitive trauma processing in Palestinian mothers and infants: a longitudinal study

Diab, Safwat Y; Isosävi, Sanna; Qouta, Samir; Kuittinen, Saija; Punamäki, Raija-Leena (Elsevier, 2018)

Background Women at pre partum and post partum are especially susceptible to war trauma because they struggle to protect their infants from danger. Trauma research suggests increased problems in maternal mental health and ...

The protective role of maternal posttraumatic growth and cognitive trauma processing among Palestinian mothers and infants

Diab, Safwat Y; Isosävi, Sanna; Qouta, Samir; Kuittinen, Saija; Punamäki, Raija-Leena (JAI, 2018)

War survivors use multiple cognitive and emotional processes to protect their mental health from the negative impacts of trauma. Because mothers and infants may be especially vulnerable to trauma in conditions of war, it ...

Trauma and autobiographical memory: contents and determinants of earliest memories among war-affected Palestinian children

Peltonen, Kirsi; Kangaslampi, Samuli; Qouta, Samir; Punamäki, Raija-Leena (Routledge, 2017)

The contents of earliest memories (EM), as part of autobiographical memory, continue to fascinate scientists and therapists. However, research is scarce on the determinants of EM, especially among children. This study aims, ...

Can functional emotion regulation protect children's mental health from war trauma? A Palestinian study

Diab, Marwan; Peltonen, Kirsi; Qouta, Samir; Palosaari, Esa; Punamäki, Raija‐leena (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017)

Effective emotion regulation (ER) is expected to protect mental health in traumatic stress. We first analysed the protective (moderator) function of different ER strategies and the associations between ER and mental health. ...

Maternal pre-and postnatal mental health and infant development in war conditions: The Gaza Infant Study.

Punamäki, Raija-Leena; Diab, Safwat Y; Isosävi, Sanna; Kuittinen, Saija; Qouta, Samir (Educational Publishing Foundation, 2017)

Objective: Women and their infants need special protection in war context, as traumatic events can risk maternal mental and obstetric health and compromise infant development. This prospective study examined, first, how ...

A cross sectional study of the relationship between the exposure of pregnant women to military attacks in 2014 in Gaza and the load of heavy metal contaminants in the hair of …

Manduca, Paola; Diab, Safwat Y; Qouta, Samir; Albarqouni, Nabil MA; Punamaki, Raiija-Leena (British Medical Journal Publishing Group, 2017)

Objective Metal contamination of humans in war areas has rarely been investigated. Weaponry’s heavy metals become environmentally stable war remnants and accumulate in living things. They also pose health risks in terms ...

War trauma and maternal–fetal attachment predicting maternal mental health, infant development, and dyadic interaction in Palestinian families

Punamäki, Raija-Leena; Isosävi, Sanna; Qouta, Samir; Kuittinen, Saija; Diab, Safwat Y (Routledge, 2017)

Optimal maternal–fetal attachment (MFA) is believed to be beneficial for infant well-being and dyadic interaction, but research is scarce in general and among risk populations. Our study involved dyads living in war ...

Changes in outcomes of pregnancies in Gaza from 2011 to 2016; relationship with environmental changes and load of heavy metals in mothers and newborns

AL Baraquni, Nabil; Abu Abadi, Dania; Abdallah, Hanady; Abu Hamad, Ghada; Abu Mosa, Taghreed; Baloushah, Suha; Miqdad, Huda; Salah, Maha; EL Shawwa, Raneem; Diab, Safwat Y; Qouta, Samir; Punamäki, Raija-Leena; Manduca, Paola (Pergamon, 2017)

Methods: Surveillance at birth accompanied by chemical analysis of the load of heavy metals in mothers and newborns hair [2]: registration of sequential births at 3 time points (2011, 2015, 2016) following 3 military attacks ...

Maternal trauma affects prenatal mental health and infant stress regulation among Palestinian dyads

Isosävi, Sanna; Diab, Safwat Y; Kangaslampi, Samuli; Qouta, Samir; Kankaanpää, Saija; Puura, Kaija; Punamäki, Raija‐leena (2017)

We examined how diverse and cumulated traumatic experiences predicted maternal prenatal mental health and infant stress regulation in war conditions and whether maternal mental health mediated the association between trauma ...

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