Mental health care in Kuwait: Toward a community-based decentralized approach

Kaladchibachi, Sevag; Al-Dhafiri, Abdulwahab M

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“…The Boomerang program took a positive approach to bullying that empowers young people. As instructional and punitive approaches have been ineffective (Borgwald & Theixos, 2013;Hatzenbuehler et al, 2015;Rigby, 2008), few counselling services exist across schools in Kuwait and mental health services are stigmatized (Almazeedi & Alsuwaidi, 2014;Kaladchibachi & Al-Dhafiri, 2018;Scull et al, 2014), more is needed. The offer of positive arts interventions may be one way for students to build positive states of wellbeing, which are conducive to their present and future learning and employment outcomes, as well as protective of declines in their mental health (Fredrickson, 2001;Keyes, 2005).…”

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Lambert¹,

Joshanloo²,

Warren³

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As positive psychology expands its range of strategies to raise levels of flourishing, many interventions have been identified with new ones emerging. The positive arts offer a new avenue; one such intervention is drama and theater that can benefit subjective and social wellbeing as these offer individuals the opportunity to empathize with others, as well as consider alternative ways to act and think. These can be valuable for bullying prevention. Kuwait's "Boomerang" anti-bullying theater program designed to increase social kindness is one such example. The tools of applied theater were taught to teachers and/or school counsellors of during a six day training workshop. They in turn, trained seven to ten students who were real life bullies, victims and bystanders in their respective schools to become actors in each school’s culminating theater play. Participating acting students and audience members were assessed to determine the effects of the program on perceptions of school kindness, depression, life satisfaction, subjective wellbeing, social cohesion and trust, perceptions of school climate. Data collection was conducted across 7 private middle and high schools, with the final pre-intervention sample consisted of a total of 216 participating students and 1207 observing students (N = 1423). The quasi-experimental study shows that the intervention was successful in increasing perceptions of social cohesion and trust, a positive school climate, and student life satisfaction; however, there were no significant effects on outcome variables. This multi-school intervention improved overall school climates and shows promise in addressing bullying behaviors.

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Joshanloo²,

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“…After ensuring that the participants met the eligibility requirements, individuals were invited to participate in the survey. The population of Kuwait was estimated to be 4,270,471 in 2020 [ 2 ] — the prevalence of lifetime mental health issues among people in Kuwait was estimated to be 40%— [ 9 ], considering 95% confidence intervals and 5% margin of error and to achieve an 80% power, the minimum sample size needed was estimated to be 369 according to OpenEpi software.…”

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Coping strategies to overcome psychological distress and fear during COVID-19 pandemic in Kuwait

Elaidy

Hammoud

Albatineh

et al. 2023

Middle East Curr Psychiatry

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Background The COVID-19 pandemic has detrimental effects on both physical and psychological well-being of community people worldwide. The purpose of this research was to determine coping strategies and the factors associated with psychological distress and fear among adults in Kuwait during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results Participants with good-excellent mental health perception had significantly lower prevalence of reporting high psychological distress, while those identified as patients as used health services in the past 4 weeks had significantly higher prevalence of reporting high psychological distress. On the other hand, individuals born in the same country of residence, whose financial situation was impacted by COVID-19 had significantly lower prevalence of reporting high levels of fear from COVID-19. Those with an income source, with co-morbidities, tested negative to COVID-19, being frontline or essential worker, reported medium to high psychological distress and had significantly higher prevalence of high levels of fear of COVID-19. Conclusions Mental health services should be provided in addition to the existing services in primary healthcare settings, so that the impact of ongoing pandemic on psychological wellbeing of people in Kuwait can be addressed.

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“…Given that mental health services and help-seeking are highly stigmatized in Kuwait, with services either under-utilized or not widely available (Almazeedi and Alsuwaidi 2014;Kaladchibachi and Al-Dhafiri 2018;Scull et al 2014), the offer of positive psychology interventions, which do not require a diagnosis nor admission of a problem, may be a further boon in increasing wellbeing and alleviating symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression that would likely otherwise go unnoticed (Dawood 2013). Thus, as wellbeing is, to a degree, malleable (Lyubomirsky et al 2005), especially by engaging in activities purposefully geared towards that end, we chose to implement a positive psychology intervention study to see what changes could be produced in a sample of Kuwaiti youth, with the factors identified serving to highlight the social context in which the program was delivered.…”

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Wellbeing Matters in Kuwait: The Alnowair’s Bareec Education Initiative

Lambert

Scull²,

Sabah³

et al. 2018

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Wellbeing is predictive of improved learning outcomes, better mental health, prosocial and civic behavior, higher work productivity, and enhanced life satisfaction. Given that literature in support of wellbeing is robust, it is incumbent on local communities to put this research into practice and develop culturally-competent programs that promote the skills to increase it. In collaboration with Alnowair, a non-profit organization committed to increasing wellbeing in Kuwait, a semester-long positive psychology program, called Bareec, was designed to generate positive emotions and increase levels of flourishing in university and secondary school students. The Bareec program consisted of 15-min weekly instructions in positive psychology and positive psychology interventions. To test the program's efficacy, Bareec was implemented in the national public university and in 10 secondary schools (total N = 977). Relative to control groups, Bareec university participants showed greater levels of flourishing (eudaimonic wellbeing; d = .32), while secondary school participants showed enhanced positive affect (hedonic wellbeing; d = .27) in addition to a small improvement in flourishing (d = .15).

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Mental health care in Kuwait: Toward a community-based decentralized approach

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