Objective: This study investigates the impact of ongoing traumatic events on Palestinian adolescents‟ posttraumatic stress according to event-related and demographic factors. Method: A sample of 368 Palestinian adolescents (49.2% males, mean age 17.03) was drawn from different areas of the Gaza Strip. Students were investigated on exposure to traumatic events and posttraumatic stress symptoms (...

OBJECTIVE To assess the differences in rates and odds for emergency caesarean section among singleton pregnancies in six governmental Palestinian hospitals. DESIGN A prospective population-based birth cohort study. SETTING Obstetric departments in six governmental Palestinian hospitals. PARTICIPANTS 32 321 women scheduled to deliver vaginally from 1 March 2015 until 29 February 2016. ME...

On September 2000, the Al Aqsa Itifada erupted. Palestinian children and families have been exposed to a variety of traumatic events, ranging from hearing of killing, to bombardment by helicopters at the entire Gaza Strip. The current conflict differs from the previous Intifada, in which events such as night and day raids were common occurrence in previous Intifada (1987-1993). Shelling and bom...

BACKGROUND During the last two decades, waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS), also known as hookah, witnessed a global increase in use, especially among youth. Little information is known about the burden of WTS among Palestinian youth. A cross-sectional study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of WTS and cigarette smoking and explore the associated factors among a sample of Palestinian univer...

OBJECTIVE Over the past decade, there has been an increase in reports of health research from Palestine, but no assessment of their quality. We have assessed the quality of reports of Palestinian health research and factors associated with it. DESIGN This is a systematic review. INCLUSION CRITERIA We searched Medline and Scopus for reports of original research relevant to human health or he...

contemporary poets have allocated a great share in quranic intertextuality to themselves. one of these poets is the palestinian one called fadavi toqan who has used the quranic concepts and vocabulary in order to express social and political problems as well as his own pains and suffers. in the present article the poet has studied all three kinds of pun by bringing examples.

BACKGROUND Nanomedicine is the medical application of nanomaterials that may have an infinite size with the range less than 100 nm. This science has provided solutions to many of the current limitations in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Therefore, the pharmacist's knowledge and awareness of nano-pharmaceutical drugs will increase their availability in the market, and will improve the ...

the main purpose of this research is pondering and explaining the place of women in the process of palestine’s resistance by analyzing related symbols in fadwa touqan’s poetry. she is known as the representative and the exemplary personality of women’s poetry and to some extent her reputation has been in the shadow of the literary characteristic of her brother, ibrahim touqan. fadwa has a promi...