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Advancing Muslim American Health Priorities

Exploring the Religious Dimensions of Mental, Reproductive and Sexual Health.

October 18-20, 2019

The University of Chicago Gordon Center for Integrative Sciences

Conference Overview

A-MAP is the culmination of our Engaging Muslim Americans for Research on Community Health (E-MARCH) project through which a cohort of religious leaders, community health and social service workers, researchers, physicians, and patients from across the United States identified key community health research priorities for Muslim Americans. This conference provides a venue to examine these priorities by bringing together diverse stakeholders to discuss mosque-based, patient-centered approaches to addressing the religious dimensions of mental, reproductive, and sexual health disparities. 

By bringing together a cohort of Muslim religious leaders, clinicians, researchers, and advocates from across the country (E-MARCH Cohort), this conference aims to foster collaboration between community leaders, patients, and other health stakeholders to better facilitate research, interventions, and programs that address Muslim health. This 3 day conference features round table discussions and a one-of-a-kind live health research ‘Shark Tank’ panel where attendees can hear the E-MARCH cohort’s project pitches to a variety of health research funders and experts. Following A-MAP, the Initiative on Islam and Medicine in collaboration with Khalil CenterBayan, and Darul Qasim is hosting 5th Annual Islamic Bioethics Symposium exploring the normative aspects of mental, sexual, and reproductive health. 

The conference, sponsored by Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute and co-organized in collaboration with Whitestone FoundationUmma Clinic, and Worry Free Community, will explore Muslim Americans’ mental, sexual, and reproductive health.

Keynote Speakers

Aziz Sheikh, MBBS, MSc, MD

Director, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences & Informatics
University of Edinburgh

Rami Nashashibi, PhD

Executive Director
Inner-City Muslim Action Network

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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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