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Shareif A. Abdelwahab Esq

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Shareif A. Abdelwahab Esq

Student at Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Shareif A. Abdelwahab Esq. is a third-year student at Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is currently completing a Distinction in Medical Innovation and Entrepreneurship with a focus on innovative modalities that help patients with Chronic Kidney Disease transition to home-based dialysis.
Shareif also serves on the Rutgers University Senate, the largest deliberative body on campus that represents more than 50,000 students, professors, and staff. In this connection, he advises the Senate’s Executive Committee and serves as the Senate’s representative and liaison to the Rutgers University Board of Governors.
Prior to joining medical school, Shareif practiced law at a leading international law firm in Paris and Dubai wherein he advised government entities and Fortune 500 companies on international arbitration disputes and white collar crimes. He is licensed to practice law in the States of NY and NJ.
Shareif graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and from Georgetown Law with a concentration in international law and arbitration. He is fluent in English and Arabic.

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Intervention Study

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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.

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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.

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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.
Chicago
Michigan
Californa

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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