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Over the past 15 years, II&M has developed innovative community health research methodologies, crafted research-tested implementation toolkits, informed nuanced Islamic bioethical guidelines, designed effective workshops and courses, and authored data-driven policy reports. This knowledge and expertise is available to community leaders, researchers, policy-makers, patients, and others through our dedicated consultation services. You will meet with vetted experts and scholars and obtain high-quality insights and tools to assist you in the domains noted below. Please Click the form below to start an initial inquiry

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Community-engaged health research in Muslim mosques and communities

Religious Accommodation Policies For Muslim Patients and Providers in Healthcare

Islamic Bioethics Guidelines

Organ Donation and Brain Death Health Policies

Faith-based health intervention design in Muslim communities

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Theology & Science Working Group Methods & Design

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Muslim healthcare clinic design and implementation

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Mufti Nazim Khutbah

Padela Khutbah

Shkifah Khutbah

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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