Access to Pharmaceuticals: An Overview by Ang, Wei Chern, Cheah, Yong Kang

Subjects: “…RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology…”
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Therapeutic community in ASEAN countries: Scope of practice and indicators of effectiveness by Mohamed, Mahmood Nazar, Don, Yahya, Kasa, Muhamad Dzahir

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Family therapists’ adult attachment styles and the therapeutic alliance by Yusof, Yusmarhaini, Carpenter, John

“…Therapists’ adult attachment style may affect their ability to form effective therapeutic alliances.An analysis of semi-structured interviews with eleven family therapists explored the relationship between their adult attachment styles, as assessed using a self-report measure, and their perceptions of the therapeutic alliance. …”

The non-admissibility of the principle of therapeutic privilege in clinical trials by Yusof, Yuhanif, C. N., Anisah, Md Desa, Md Rejab

“…The objective of this paper is to examine the issue of non-admissibility of the principle of therapeutic privilege in clinical trials.In medical treatment, doctors could decide not to disclose information for the best interest of the patients by adopting the principle of therapeutic privilege.This principle exempts doctors from disclosing risky information at his discretion especially if by doing so will cause harm or trauma to patients.However, this principle is not recognised in clinical trials. …”
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Therapeutic serious game design guidelines for stimulating cognitive abilities of children with speech and language delay by Ahmad Zaki, Nadia Akma, Tengku Wook, Tengku Siti Meriam, Ahmad, Kartini

“…The creation of an effective therapeutic serious game (TSG) is highly dependent upon its design and the fundamental knowledge of the users. …”
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Towards developing a therapeutic computer game for adolescent suffering from depression: A preliminary study by Yusof, Norhana, M. R., Riaza

“…The popularity of digital game among people these days has given opportunity for therapists to assist them in psychotherapy sessions.Hence, this paper reports on some early investigation done on this topic to acquire a more in -depth understanding of the existing problems by conducting a series of consultations with game developers and experts in the area of therapy.The preliminary results indicate a desideratum for future design and development in therapeutic computer games for adolescents.…”
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A Preliminary Study on Understanding the Consumptions of Therapeutic Essential Oils During Covid-19 Pandemic Among Adults Using ANN by Ahmad Kamaruddin, Saadi, Yaakob, Abdul Malek, Md Nasir, Nor Anis Nadhirah, Abdul Rahman, Siti Fatimah

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Serious games in mental health treatment: Review of literature by Yusof, Norhana, Mohd Rias, Riaza, Yusoff, Eizwan Hamdie

“…In these recent years, psychotherapists have realized the advantages of using games as the assistive tool in psychotherapy, so called therapeutic games. The use of serious games is already being applied in various types of mental illnesses, such as anxiety, depression, phobia,panic disorder, and eating disorder.This position paper describes the effectiveness of serious games in treating various mental illnesses among young patients.A systematic review points out the development and research in the circle of serious games for mental illnesses focusing on young patients.In this paper, the literature review consists of relevant serious games for therapeutic development since the year 2005.…”
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Shared values through human resource management: In supporting the transformation plan by Hasnan, Norlena, Razalli, Mohd Rizal, Mohd Sharif, Kamal Imran

“…Values refer to the standards and expectations hold by the employees of the organization that guide aspects of practice performance.Generally, in services, the core values that support, respect choice, collaboration, and customer service are critical foundation stones of a trusting therapeutic relationship.Hence, this case is related to one of the government department who put great effort to transform.Before the department can move forward for the transformation agenda, it is critical to understand their current values and practices, which subsequently enable to identify the performance gap that hindered the achievement of the assigned target. …”
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Differences in self-esteem and personality profile of recovering drug addicts, residents of a TC drug rehabilitation program and government drug treatment program by Mohamed, Mahmood Nazar

“…Two types of treatment facilities are involved, that is the Serenti government drug rehabilitation center and Pengasih House, an NG0 that employed therapeutic community (TC) approach to rehabilitate persons addicted to drugs. …”
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Traditional methods in rehabilitating psychoactive drug dependents in Malaysia: An alternative modality by Mohamed, Mahmood Nazar, Che Din, Md Shuaib, Ishak, Ismail

“…Pcychoactive drug addiction treatment and rehabilitation programmes world wide are facing with the difficulty of successfully treating and rehabilitating drug dependents because this rate of success is very much determined by the rate of slips, lapse and relapse (recidivism).The success rate for the rehabilitation of drug dependent ranges from 50 to 70 percents, and specifically,in the case of Malaysia,around 60%.Popular current treatment modalities have been employed in Malaysia since 1983, namely detoxification, physical, pyschososial and psychological treatment via various modes such as full time in-house treatment schedules (the serenti programme),therapeutic community,and the out-patient programmes.The only modality being excluded or being practiced is the methadone maintainance programme and other similar treatment procedures using substitute mood altering agents.However, another treatment approach which has been neglected by research is the traditional modality such as the homeopathy approach, the religious (Islamic-spiritual) method and other spiritual approaches, since the number of drug addicts being rehabilitated at these centres are small, and where approaches and procedures differ greatly from one centre to the next.This study looks at one of the traditional approaches, identifying the underpinning philosophical assumptions,processes, procedures and modes of implementation.The paper also report preliminary finding in terms of its effectiveness in treatment and endow observation on its future prospect as an alternative method of rehabilitating drug addicts.…”
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Classifying breast cancer types based on fine needle aspiration biopsy data using random forest classifier by Ahmad, Farzana Kabir, Yusoff, Nooraini

“…As a result, breast cancer patients may response to different therapeutic options.Currently, difficulties in recognizing the breast cancer types lead to inefficient treatments.Generally, there are two types of breast cancer, known as malignant and benign.Therefore it is necessary to devise a clinically meaningful classification of the disease that can accurately classify breast cancer tissues into relevant classes.This study aims to classify breast cancer lesions which have been obtained from fine needle aspiration (FNA) procedure using random forest. …”
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A survey of family therapists’ adult attachment styles in the United Kingdom by Yusof, Yusmarhaini, Carpenter, John S. W.

“…Research on individual therapy suggests that the ability to build effective therapeutic alliances with clients is related to the therapist’s adult attachment style.This paper reports an on-line survey of the attachment styles of registered family therapists in the UK which investigated associations between therapist’s attachment style, prior profession, gender and preference for a model of therapy.All 443 UK registered family therapists were surveyed and 82 (19 percent) replied.The survey included two standardised self-report measures: the Relationship Questionnaire (RQ) (Bartholomew and Horowitz in Pers Soc Psychol 61:226–244, 1991) and the Experiences in Close Relationships Questionnaire (ECR) (Brennan et al. in Attachment theory and close relationship. …”