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Post-traumatic stress disorder among victims of great march of return in the Gaza Strip, Palestine: A need for policy intervention

Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon Khalil; Abu-El-Noor, Nasser Ibrahim; Alswerki, Mohammad; Naim, Fadel N.; Elessi, Khamis A.; Al-Asmar, Yousef Zyad; Afifi, Tayseer (Elsevier BV, 2022-02)

"This study aimed to assess the level of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD) and to examine the relationship between exposure to war stress and posttraumatic symptoms among people who were injured during the Great March ...

Perception of Palestinian Undergraduate Nursing and Midwifery Students About Professional Values: A Cross-Sectional Study

Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon; Allari, Rabia; Abu-El-Noor, Nasser (2021-08-10)

Background: Professional values provide a context for appraising beliefs and attitudes that guide behaviors and considered as standards for acceptable actions by professionals toward providing safe patient ...

Assessing Barriers to and Level of Adherence to Hypertension Therapy among Palestinians Living in the Gaza Strip: A Chance for Policy Innovation

Abu-El-Noor, Nasser; Aljeesh, Yousef I.; Böttcher, Bettina; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon (Hindawi Limited, 2020-09-24)

Hypertension is a major health concern, especially in low-income countries. Nonadherence and poor or no persistence in adhering to hypertension treatment regimens result in uncontrolled high blood pressure, increasing rates ...

Patient safety culture among nurses working in Palestinian governmental hospital: a pathway to a new policy

Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I.; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K.; Abuowda, Yousef; Alfaqawi, Maha; Böttcher, Bettina (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-12)

Providing safe care helps to reduce mortality, morbidity, length of hospital stay and cost. Patient safety is highly linked to attitudes of health care providers, where those with more positive attitudes achieve higher ...

Choices and services related to contraception in the Gaza strip, Palestine: perceptions of service users and providers

Böttcher, Bettina; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K.; Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I. (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-12)

Reliable contraception enables women and men to plan their family sizes and avoid unintended pregnancies, which can cause distress and anxiety, but also increase maternal mortality. This study explored potential barriers ...

Attitudes of doctors and nurses to patient safety and errors in medical practice in the Gaza-Strip: a cross-sectional study

Böttcher, Bettina; Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I.; Abuowda, Yousef; Alfaqawi, Maha; Alaloul, Enas; El-hout, Somaya; Al-Najjar, Ibrahem; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K. (BMJ, 2019-08)

Objectives This study examined the attitudes of nurses and doctors to key patient safety concepts, evaluated differences and similarities between professional groups and assessed positive and negative attitudes to identify ...

Causes and consequences of unintended pregnancies in the Gaza-Strip: A qualitative study

Böttcher, Bettina; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon; Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I. (BMJ, 2019-04)

Abstract Background Little is known about unintended pregnancies in the Gaza Strip. This study explored causes and consequences of unintended pregnancies among women in the Gaza Strip. Methods This was a qualitative ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder among health care providers two years following the Israeli attacks against Gaza Strip in August 2014: Another call for policy intervention

Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I.; Aljeesh, Yousef I.; Radwan, Abdalkarim S.; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K.; Qddura, Ibrahim A.; Khadoura, Khalid J.; Alnawajha, Samer K. (2018)

This study aimed to assess the level of posttraumatic stress disorder and to examine the relationship between exposure to war stress and posttraumatic symptoms among health care providers two years following Israeli ...

Assessing spiritual well-being of Palestinian Cardiac Patients: A reflection for a new spiritual care policy

Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K. (الجامعة الإسلامية - غزة, 2017)

Religious and spiritual beliefs are important factors that influence quality of life outcome of patients diagnosed with chronic diseases such as heart disease. Spirituality is an important component of overall well-being ...

Safety Culture in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the Gaza Strip, Palestine: A Need for Policy Change

Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I.; Hamdan, Motasem Abduallah; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K.; Radwan, Abdal-Karim Said; Alshaer, Ahmed Ali (WB Saunders, 2017)

Introduction Assessment of the prevailing safety culture within the Gazan health care system can be used to identify problem areas. Specifically, the need for improvements, raising awareness about patient safety, the ...