COVID-19, war and poverty in Syria

Swed, Sarya; Alibrahim, Hidar; Sawaf, Bisher; Alzabibi, Mhd Amin; Shibani, Mosa; Sakkour, Rama

doi:10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103382

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“…[13] This may be because Syria is now experiencing challenges with the internet and electricity as a result of a civil war that has lasted for more than 10 years. [14][15][16][17][18] Other studies reported greater proportions of internet addiction, such as Basem Salama et al research's in Al-Beheira Governorate, Egypt in 2020, which found that 47.5% of the subjects were afflicted by online addiction. [19] Mehdi Sayyah et al 2019.…”

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“…[13] This may be because Syria is now experiencing challenges with the internet and electricity as a result of a civil war that has lasted for more than 10 years. [14–18] Other studies reported greater proportions of internet addiction, such as Basem Salama et al research’s in Al-Beheira Governorate, Egypt in 2020, which found that 47.5% of the subjects were afflicted by online addiction. [19] Mehdi Sayyah et al 2019.’s research on medical students in Iran found that (1.6% of them) used the internet normally, (47.4%) had a light internet addiction, (38.3% had a moderate addiction), and (12.9% had a severe degree of addiction).…”

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Prevalence of internet addiction among Syrian undergraduate medical students

Latifeh¹,

Alkhatib

Hmidouch

et al. 2022

Medicine

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The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence and risk factors for internet addiction disorder among Syrian medical students. Syrian medical students from 8 different universities participated in an online cross-sectional questionnaire study between May 13 and June 16, 2022. DASS-21 Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale, and Internet Addiction Test were the 3 main determinants of the questionnaire. One thousand nine hundred fifty-three medical students from 8 different Syrian universities have participated in our cross-sectional. Half of the participants were from the Syrian private and Damascus universities. 62.1% were females, and most participants had good academic degrees (70-90/100). Sixty-nine percent of the study participants thought that COVID19 increased internet use rates. The Internet Addiction Scale's average score was 33.48 ± 16.29 (1-100). The total young internet addiction test score was high among medical students from the faculty of medicine university, students from Damascus University, males, smokers, and medical students with lower academic credentials than other subgroups. Both the relationship between internet addiction and DASS-21 subgroups and the correlation between DASS-21 subgroups were statistically significant. Our research showed that internet addiction was widespread among Syrian medical students, particularly when used more for entertainment than educational purposes. Additionally, it was linked to poor academic degrees in the exams at the university and mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and stress.

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Prevalence of internet addiction among Syrian undergraduate medical students

Latifeh¹,

Alkhatib

Hmidouch

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Medicine

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“…The present results of our research might be attributed to the dismal state of insufficient mental health assistance for all Syrians, particularly mental health patients, as a result of the 11-year civil war, which has destroyed many hospitals and encouraged professionals to migrate in search of a better livelihood. Therefore, there are no ethical rules for dealing with patients with mental health issues, and insufficient healthy surveillance and care for these people [30][31][32].…”

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The Stigmatizing Attitudes of Syrian University Students Toward Schizophrenia

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Shoib²,

Kadri³

et al. 2022

Cureus

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Background: Stigma is frequently considered an obstacle to schizophrenia treatment and recovery. However, little is known regarding the stigma experienced by persons with schizophrenia among Syrian college students.Methods: A total of 963 students from Syrian colleges and universities participated in this study, using a questionnaire with a case vignette illustrating schizophrenia. The questionnaire inquired about people's attitudes toward schizophrenia and their desire to avoid contact with people with schizophrenia. The current study investigated college students' stigma toward people with schizophrenia, desire for social distancing, gender (male and female), and major (medical and non-medical) differences.Results: The people described in the vignette were deemed "dangerous" (28%) and "could snap out of the problem" (50.20%), according to the respondents. Female students were more likely than male students to agree that "schizophrenia is not really a medical disease" (4.40% vs. 8.9%, p ≤ 0.05). Compared with medical students, non-medical students were more likely to agree that "The problem is a reflection of personal weakness" (20% vs. 21.7%, p < 0.05). Many respondents said they would not "marry into the family of someone with schizophrenia" (95.6%) or "work closely with them" (77.6%). Conclusion:In this study, it was observed that a considerable percentage of Syrian college students exhibited stigma toward persons with schizophrenia and really wanted to avoid social interaction with them, with female and non-medical students having higher stigma toward people with schizophrenia in several subscale items. The findings imply that more anti-stigma interventions for Syrian college students should be implemented to help avoid or lessen the stigma toward people with schizophrenia.

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“…Therefore, although politics and health are subjects sometimes seen as unrelated, the index of political stability can and should be used as a predictor of the management capacity of a pandemic[ 73 ]. Thus, in countries in a constant war situation, such as Syria and Lebanon, the position in the face of a global health problem is complex, since its inhabitants and political leaders must deal with the pandemic and the ongoing war, two serious obstacles, which add up to the death and invalidity numbers[ 74 ].…”

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Syndemic aspects between COVID-19 pandemic and social inequalities

Apolonio¹,

Júnior²,

Cuzzuol³

et al. 2022

WJM

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Although the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has reached all over the world population, it has demonstrated a heterogeneous impact on different populations. The most vulnerable communities which coexist daily with the social inequalities like low access to hygiene and personal protection products, crowded residences, and higher levels of chronic diseases have a higher risk of contact and the spread of infection, beyond unfavorable clinical outcomes. The elevation of the risk of infection exposure can be related to gender due to the presence of a larger contingent of women in essential services, as well as frontline and cleaning professionals who regardless of gender have the greatest exposure to the virus. Such exposures can contribute to the development of fear of contaminating themselves or their family members associated also with the work stress, both of which are related to the emergence of mental disturbances in these populations. Furthermore, conditions of unsanitary living and low socioeconomic status, populations at war, pre-existing social barriers, and ethnicity have contributed to more impact of the pandemic both in the exposure to the virus and access to health services, COVID-19 management, and management of other pathologies. At the same time, factors such as the closing of non-essential services, the loss of jobs, and the increase in household spending aggravated the social vulnerabilities and impacted the family economy. Lastly, the COVID-19 pandemic contributed still more to the impact on women's health since it propitiated a favorable environment for increasing domestic violence rates, through the segregation of women from social life, and increasing the time of the victims with their aggressors.

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COVID-19, war and poverty in Syria

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Prevalence of internet addiction among Syrian undergraduate medical students

Prevalence of internet addiction among Syrian undergraduate medical students

The Stigmatizing Attitudes of Syrian University Students Toward Schizophrenia

Syndemic aspects between COVID-19 pandemic and social inequalities

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