Attitude of Syrian students toward GAD patients: An online cross-sectional study
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a prevalent condition and a significant cause of mental disability and poor quality of life. People with GAD have chronic worrying, restlessness, and discrimination from the general public; Little is known about the stigmatizing attitudes toward people with GAD...
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| author | Sarya Swed Sheikh Shoib Ubaid Khan Amro A. El-Sakka Mohammad Badr Almoshantaf Noheir Ashraf Ibrahem Fathy Hassan Lina Taha Khairy Agyad Bakkour Ali Hadi Hussein Muwaili Karam R. Motawea Fatima Abubaker Abdalla Abdelmajid Eman Mohammed Sharif Ahmad Safaa Mohamed Alsharief Ahmed Mohammad Mehedi Hasan Bisher Sawaf Mhd Kutaiba Albuni Elias Battikh Asmaa Zainabo Hidar Alibrahim Hazem S. Ghaith Nashaat Kamal Hamdy Elkalagi |
| author_facet | Sarya Swed Sheikh Shoib Ubaid Khan Amro A. El-Sakka Mohammad Badr Almoshantaf Noheir Ashraf Ibrahem Fathy Hassan Lina Taha Khairy Agyad Bakkour Ali Hadi Hussein Muwaili Karam R. Motawea Fatima Abubaker Abdalla Abdelmajid Eman Mohammed Sharif Ahmad Safaa Mohamed Alsharief Ahmed Mohammad Mehedi Hasan Bisher Sawaf Mhd Kutaiba Albuni Elias Battikh Asmaa Zainabo Hidar Alibrahim Hazem S. Ghaith Nashaat Kamal Hamdy Elkalagi |
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| description | Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a prevalent condition and a significant cause of mental disability and poor quality of life. People with GAD have chronic worrying, restlessness, and discrimination from the general public; Little is known about the stigmatizing attitudes toward people with GAD among Syrian students. The questionnaires contained demographic data about age, gender, social status, personal stigma toward GAD scale, perceived stigma toward GAD scale, social distance with those with GAD, the participants' usual source of their knowledge about GAD, helpful interventions, and supporting information. A total of 1,370 replies were collected, but only 1,358 were used for analysis as 12 participants declined to complete the survey. About 44.1% of participants agreed that people with GAD could snap out of the problem, most of them being females (32.4% of the total population). Compared to medical students, more non-medical students (7.1% of the total population) believed that anxiety is a sign of personal weakness. This study demonstrated that Syrian college students showed a high level of stigmatizing and socially distancing attitudes toward people with GAD, particularly female and non-medical students. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9a808fa3e67641c5b085e5e3703a97ba2022-12-22T04:22:38ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652022-11-011010.3389/fpubh.2022.955321955321Attitude of Syrian students toward GAD patients: An online cross-sectional studySarya Swed0Sheikh Shoib1Ubaid Khan2Amro A. El-Sakka3Mohammad Badr Almoshantaf4Noheir Ashraf Ibrahem Fathy Hassan5Lina Taha Khairy6Agyad Bakkour7Ali Hadi Hussein Muwaili8Karam R. Motawea9Fatima Abubaker Abdalla Abdelmajid10Eman Mohammed Sharif Ahmad11Safaa Mohamed Alsharief Ahmed12Mohammad Mehedi Hasan13Bisher Sawaf14Mhd Kutaiba Albuni15Elias Battikh16Asmaa Zainabo17Hidar Alibrahim18Hazem S. Ghaith19Nashaat Kamal Hamdy Elkalagi20Faculty of Medicine, Aleppo University, Aleppo, SyriaDepartment of Psychiatry, Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Hospital, Srinagar, Kashmir, IndiaFaculty of Medicine, King Edward Medical University Lahore, Lahore, PakistanFaculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, EgyptDepartment of Neurosurgery, Ibn Al-Nafees Hospital, Damascus, SyriaFaculty of Medicine, Aswan University, Aswan, EgyptFaculty of Medicine, The National Ribat University, Khartoum, SudanFaculty of Medicine, Albaath University, Homs, SyriaFaculty of Medicine, Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine0Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt1Faculty of Medicine, University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan2Faculty of Medicine, Nile Valley University, Atbara, Sudan3Faculty of Medicine, Shendi University, Shendi, Sudan4Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh5Department of Internal Medicine, Syrian Private University, Damascus, Syria6Faculty of Medicine, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria7Faculty of Medicine, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria7Faculty of Medicine, Tishreen University, Lattakia, SyriaFaculty of Medicine, Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria8Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt9Lecturer in Internal Medicine and Tropical Medicine at Faculty of Medicine Al Arish University, Alarish, EgyptGeneralized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a prevalent condition and a significant cause of mental disability and poor quality of life. People with GAD have chronic worrying, restlessness, and discrimination from the general public; Little is known about the stigmatizing attitudes toward people with GAD among Syrian students. The questionnaires contained demographic data about age, gender, social status, personal stigma toward GAD scale, perceived stigma toward GAD scale, social distance with those with GAD, the participants' usual source of their knowledge about GAD, helpful interventions, and supporting information. A total of 1,370 replies were collected, but only 1,358 were used for analysis as 12 participants declined to complete the survey. About 44.1% of participants agreed that people with GAD could snap out of the problem, most of them being females (32.4% of the total population). Compared to medical students, more non-medical students (7.1% of the total population) believed that anxiety is a sign of personal weakness. This study demonstrated that Syrian college students showed a high level of stigmatizing and socially distancing attitudes toward people with GAD, particularly female and non-medical students.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.955321/fullGAD (general anxiety disorders)stigmanationalSyriastudents |
| spellingShingle | Sarya Swed Sheikh Shoib Ubaid Khan Amro A. El-Sakka Mohammad Badr Almoshantaf Noheir Ashraf Ibrahem Fathy Hassan Lina Taha Khairy Agyad Bakkour Ali Hadi Hussein Muwaili Karam R. Motawea Fatima Abubaker Abdalla Abdelmajid Eman Mohammed Sharif Ahmad Safaa Mohamed Alsharief Ahmed Mohammad Mehedi Hasan Bisher Sawaf Mhd Kutaiba Albuni Elias Battikh Asmaa Zainabo Hidar Alibrahim Hazem S. Ghaith Nashaat Kamal Hamdy Elkalagi Attitude of Syrian students toward GAD patients: An online cross-sectional study Frontiers in Public Health GAD (general anxiety disorders) stigma national Syria students |
| title | Attitude of Syrian students toward GAD patients: An online cross-sectional study |
| title_full | Attitude of Syrian students toward GAD patients: An online cross-sectional study |
| title_fullStr | Attitude of Syrian students toward GAD patients: An online cross-sectional study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Attitude of Syrian students toward GAD patients: An online cross-sectional study |
| title_short | Attitude of Syrian students toward GAD patients: An online cross-sectional study |
| title_sort | attitude of syrian students toward gad patients an online cross sectional study |
| topic | GAD (general anxiety disorders) stigma national Syria students |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.955321/full |
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