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  • Arab american adolescent perceptions and experiences with smoking 
    Kulwicki, Anahid; Rice, Virginia Hill (2017-10-20)
    The purpose of this pilot study was to gather information on Arab American adolescent tobacco use behavior. This information was used to modify the Project Toward No Tobacco Use cessation program so that it would reflect ...
  • Arab-American adolescent tobacco use 
    Kulwicki, Anahid; Templin, Thomas; Rice, Virginia Hill (2017-10-20)
    Objectives Four pilot studies were conducted to determine the (1) current tobacco use patterns and predictors among 14- to 18-year-old Arab-American youths; (2) psychometric properties of study measures (English and ...
  • Barriers in the utilization of domestic violence services among Arab immigrant women 
    Kulwicki, Anahid; Aswad, Barbara; Carmona, Talita; Ballout, Suha (2017-10-20)
    Ten focus group discussions were conducted with Arab American community leaders who had experience with victims of violence in the Arab American population and issues related to domestic violence. Community leaders were ...
  • Cancer among Arab Americans in the metropolitan Detroit area 
    Kulwicki, Anahid; Schwartz, Kendra L.; Weiss, Linda K.; Fakhouri, Haifa; Sakr, Wael; Gregory, Kau; Severson, Richard K. (2017-10-20)
    Detroit is home to one of the largest populations of Arab Americans outside of the Middle East, yet little is known about the cancer distribution in this ethnic group. The authors of this study created an Arab/Chaldean ...
  • Culturally sensitive smoking cessation intervention program redesign for Arab-American youth 
    Kulwicki, Anahid; Al-Faouri, Ibrahim; Weglicki, Linda; Jamil, Hikmet; Baker, Omar; Al-Omran, Hasan; Dakroub, Mona (2017-10-23)
  • The effects of September 11 on Arab American nurses in metropolitan Detroit 
    Kulwicki, Anahid; Khalifa, Rose; Moore, Gary (2017-10-20)
    The purpose of this article is to determine the effects of 9/11 on Arab American nurses' workplace discrimination in the Detroit metropolitan area. Thirty-four Arab American nurses completed a survey about perceptions and ...
  • An ethnographic study of illness causation perceptions of Yemeni-Americans 
    Kulwicki, Anahid (2017-10-23)
    Kulwicki, A. N. A. H. I. D. (1991). An ethnographic study of illness causation perceptions of Yemeni-Americans. Michigan Academician, 23(1), 31-42.
  • Functional and psychosocial status of Haitians who became users of lower extremity prostheses as a result of the 2010 earthquake 
    Kulwicki, Anahid; Randolph, MArilys G.; Elbaum, Leonard; Wen, Pey-Shen; Brunt, Denis; LArsen, Jessy; De la Rosa, Mario (2017-10-23)
    The January 12, 2010 earthquake devastated Port-Au-Prince, the capital of the Republic of Haiti, and its surroundings. Among the 300,000 injured, 1,200 to 1,500 people underwent traumatic /surgical amputations. The purpose ...
  • Improving global health care through diversity 
    Kulwicki, Anahid (2017-10-20)
    One of the major challenges facing the nursing profession is the globalization of nursing education, research, and practice. The word diversity is derived from the Latin word divertere meaning being different or having ...
  • Mental health, discrimination, and trauma in Arab Muslim women living in the US 
    Kulwicki, Anahid; HAssouneh, Dena M. (2017-10-20)
    In recognition of the need to identify groups of women who may be at high risk for mental disorders and contribute to the knowledge base about ethnic and cultural minority mental health, this paper provides an overview of ...
  • A model of mother–child adjustment in Arab Muslim immigrants to the US 
    Kulwicki, Anahid; Arorian, Karen; Hough, Edythe S.; Ramaswamy, Vidya; Katz, Anne (2017-10-20)
    We examined the mother–child adjustment and child behavior problems in Arab Muslim immigrant families residing in the U.S.A. The sample of 635 mother–child dyads was comprised of mothers who emigrated from 1989 or later ...
  • Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Arab American refugee and recent immigrant wormen 
    Kulwicki, Anahid; Ballout, Suha (2017-10-23)
    Routine male circumcision (RMC) has been found effective in preventing HIV infection in Africa; at the same time, incidence of HIV infection has been rising in China. Hence, RMC may be a possible means by which Chinese ...
  • Predictors of Arab American adolescent tobacco use 
    Kulwicki, Anahid; Hammad, Adnan; Jamil, Hikmet; Rice, Virginia Hill; Templin, Thomas (2017-10-23)
    This study examined personal, psychosocial, sociocultural, and environmental predictors in tobacco use for 1671 Arab American adolescents. Cigarette smoking in past 30 days was 6.9%. This increased from 1% at age 14 to 14% ...
  • Psychometric evaluation of the arabic language version of the profile of Mood States 
    Kulwicki, Anahid; Aroian, Karen J.; Kaskiri, Eleni A.; Templin, Thomas N. (2017-10-20)
    We estimated the psychometrics of the parent and a short form of the Arabic language version of the Profile of Mood States (POMS). A sample of 537 Arab immigrants completed the POMS and a battery of other measures. Data ...
  • A review of 16 cases of honour killings in Jordan in 1995 
    Kulwicki, Anahid; Hadidi, Mu'men; Jahshan, Hani (2017-10-20)
    The purpose of the study was to determine the causes of death as reported in court files of the female victims of honour crimes, the Jordanian penal codes regarding crimes of honour, the evidence used in the sentencing of ...
  • Smoking behavior in pregnant Arab Americans 
    Kulwicki, Anahid; Smiley, Karen; Devine, Susan (2017-10-20)
    Objectives: To determine the smoking behavior in pregnant Arab American women who attended a Women, Infant and Children (WIC) program at a local county public health clinic and compare the incidence of smoking behaviors ...
  • Students’ knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about AIDS 
    Kulwicki, Anahid; Petro-Nustas, Wasileh; Zumout, Arwa F. (2017-10-20)
    This exploratory, comparative study was conducted to assess and compare the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs toward AIDS between a group of Jordanian and a group of American students. A convenience sample consisting of ...