- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Mental Health via Writing
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Health and Well-being Studies
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Medical Education and Admissions
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
National University of Malaysia
2013-2025
Ministry of Health
2024
University Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre
2012-2022
Sultan Ismail Specialist Hospital
2022
Universiti Putra Malaysia
2021
Toronto Western Hospital
2020
University Health Network
2020
Queen's University
2020
RCSI & UCD Malaysia Campus
2018
Columbia University
2018
Abstract Background This study examines the 20-year trend of suicide in 46 Muslim-majority countries throughout world and compares their rates trends with global average. Ecological-level associations between proportion Muslim population, age-standardized rates, male-to-female rate ratio, Human Development Index (HDI) 2019 were examined. Methods Age-standardized extracted from WHO Global Health Estimates database for period 2000 2019. The each country compared average during past 20 years....
Background: Depression has been well studied as part of caregiver burden among patients with severe mental illnesses. Curiously, though, there little data in terms specific focus on depression caregivers major depressive disorder (MDD). Aim: This study aims to determine the rate person and its psychosocial correlates, which include stigma, perceived social support, religious commitment severity patient’s symptoms. Methods: A cross-sectional was conducted 165 diagnosed MDD using...
Objective: The burden of suicidal behavior is anticipated to increase as a sequela the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there limited evidence on among healthcare workers, an at-risk population. Our study aimed investigate ideation in terms rate and associated factors sample Malaysian workers during early-phase Methods: A subpopulation analysis ( N = 171) was conducted within larger, nation-wide cross-sectional worker psychological distress from March 18–21, 2020. Current measured with item 9...
Background: Suicide is a preventable cause of death. Examining suicide rates and trends are important in shaping national prevention strategies. Therefore, the objectives this study were to analyze age-standardized Malaysia between 2000 2019 using WHO Global Health Estimates data, compare rate with countries from Association South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Muslim majority countries, Group Seven (G7). Methods: The data extracted Estimates. We calculated average last 3 years 2017 2019....
Current suicide risk assessments for predicting attempts are time consuming, of low predictive value and have inadequate reliability. This paper aims to develop a model among patients with depression using machine learning algorithms as well presents comparative study on single models ensemble differentiating depressed from non-suicide attempters. We applied trained eight different dataset that consists 75 diagnosed depressive disorder. A recursive feature elimination was used reduce the...
Depressed inpatients constitute a high-risk population for suicide attempts.To describe the interactions of clinical and psychosocial risk factors influencing attempts among Malaysian sample depressed inpatients.Seventy-five subjects were diagnosed with depressive disorder according to Structured Clinical Interview DSM-IV Axis I Disorders-Clinical Version (SCID-CV). Data on attempts, suicidal ideation (Scale Suicidal Ideation, SSI), depression severity (Beck's Depression Inventory, BDI),...
Previous studies have shown that pesticide bans were associated with reduced fatal self-poisoning cases in high, and low-and-middle-income countries. We aimed to investigate the characteristics of poisoning patients admitted two Malaysian hospitals early impact national paraquat ban implemented on 1st January 2020 a culturally heterogenous South-East-Asian upper-middle-income setting.Data collected from an East (Bintulu) West (Ipoh) hospital medical records 2015-2021 2018-2021, respectively....
Introduction Global implementation of social and emotional learning (SEL) has been suggested to incorporate a systematic cultural adaptation process which relies on ground-up empirical data target group in tailoring culturally sensitive SEL intervention. Preliminary formative studies among local parents educators were done explore the conceptualization competencies (SECs) various settings, such as continent Africa indigenous refugee groups. Unfortunately, little scholarship devoted studying...