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Dr.Padela recently got published in the Chest. The manuscript uses a clinical case to work through Muslim controversies over brain death and withdrawing life support Here is the link
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Abdurezak Hashi

DR ABDUREZAK ABDULAHI HASHI

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Abdurezak Abdulahi Hashi obtained his Bachelor’s degree in 2001, his Master’s degree in 2003 and his Ph.D in 2008, from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), in Theology and Comparative Religion. In 2008, he started working at Kulliyyah of Science, IIUM as an Assistant Professor. Apart from being chair person and co-chair person for a number of international conferences, Dr Hashi has been invited as a speaker and presenter in various international conferences in Turkey, Malaysia, Australia and the United States of America. Since 2012, he has been a member of Reviewers, Qatar National Research Fund, Foundation of Qatar, Doha Qatar. In 2014, he was awarded the Best Teacher award at Kulliyyah level. In the same year, he was appointed as the editor of the Kulliyyah of Science academic journal, Revelation and Science. Presently, Dr Hashi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Kulliyyah of Science, and a coordinator for Multi-disciplinary Academic Postgraduate Programme, which is set to offer Master’s and Ph.D programmes in Bioethics, Kulliyyah of Science.
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Intervention Study

Qualitative Study and Interviews

Fifty Muslim multiethnicity women (40 years old and above) were interviewed (6 focused group) and 19 in individual interviews. We found religious beliefs did informed mammography intention, which includes (1) the perceived religious duty to care for one’s health, (2) religious practices as methods of disease prevention, (3) fatalistic notions about health, and (4) comfort with gender concordant health care.

Quantitative Study and survey

240, 40 years of age or older, were surveyed (72 respondents were Arab, 71 South Asian, 59 African American, and 38 from another ethnicity). We found that positive religious coping and perceived religious discrimination in health settings significantly (negatively) affected mammogram adherence among Muslim women in Chicago.

American Cancer Society mammogram recommendations

Mammogram recommendation for women at average risk or breast cancer

  • Women between 40 and 44 have a choice to have a mammography every year.
  • Women 45 to 54 should get mammograms every year.
  • Women 55 and older can switch to a mammogram every other year, or they can choose to continue yearly mammograms.

3R model

Reframing “switch train tracks”
  • Keep the barriers belief intact but change the way one thinks about it so it is consonant with the desired health behavior
  • Normalizes the barrier belief
Reprioritize: “show them a better train”
  • Introduce a new belief and create higher valence for it than the barrier belief
  • Normalization of the barrier belief is optional
Reform: “breakdown the train carriage”
  • Negate the barrier belief by demonstrating its faults by appealing to authority structures

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