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Sondos Al Sad

Sondos Al Sad

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, The Ohio State University
Contact Details
  • 414-955-1175
  • [email protected]
  • 19-J David Road H Block, Orlando, USA
  • http://www.medicineandislam.com
Courses of Expertise
  • Shariah Laws
  • History of Islam
  • Modern Era Needs
  • Organizing Help

Sondos Al sad is currently an Assistant Professor at the College of Medicine, Ohio State University, Department of Family and Community Medicine. She is the head of Education Department of Noor Islamic Cultural Center (NICC) in Dublin, Ohio, and part of The Family & Youth Institute’s Research Team since 2016. She is national certified Menopause provider, with focus on Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health, and interest in Preventive Medicine, Healthy equity, and Minority Health. She is currently leading the Muslim Mentorship program at NICC, and NICC Muslim Mental Health Lab.

She states that joining the leading and innovative institute of Initiative on Islam and Medicine (II&M) is a milestone in her pursuit for prudence in delivering health care for patients and insightful medical education.

Al Sad’s testimonial: “I do believe that Islamic creed is affluent in practices that can fortify the art of Biomedical sciences. II&M is the only center I know of nationally that can impactfully bring this wealth to professional and lay communities alike through high caliber research and candid dialogues.”

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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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