Kanwar Hamza Shuja

National University of Modern Languages | NUML · Department of Psychology

Purpose: Attaining equality between women and men and eliminating all forms of discrimination are fundamental human rights and United Nations values. Nevertheless, women globally suffer violations of their human rights throughout their lives. This necessitates investigation of the attitude that people hold towards women empowerment, which is define...

Abstract Purpose Chronic pain is a global community health and human rights issue. Proper health care is an important necessity for every human being and access for treatment is every human’s right. Likewise, it is significant that proper instruments should be administered to assess these clinical issues. It is equally necessary to reassess these...

Abstract Objectives. The primary objective of the present study was to identify various negative labels used against Pakistani Muslim immigrants in foreign countries by the natives of those countries and the changes that occurred in the attitudes of the labelled victims due to those labels. Additionally, the research also aims to investigate the c...

The primary purpose of the study was to compare the difference between the level of academic achievement, happiness and self-esteem among orphan and non-orphan children based on their gender and institution in Pakistani cultural context. Additionally, to assess whether self-esteem, observed to be lower in orphan children, acts as a moderator betwee...

Background: Pakistan is a country where the rate of crime is constantly increasing, with many ex-convicts committing the crime again after getting released from prison, with no knowledge of the antecedents of their recidivism or their psychological consequences. The current study was conducted in order to develop a theory about the social and envir...

Background Understanding health trends and estimating the burden of disease at the national and subnational levels helps policy makers track progress and identify disparities in overall health performance. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 provides comprehensive estimates for Pakistan. Comparison of health i...

This chapter focuses on the exclusive and social experiences of people in post-COVID-19 life. As it can be observed from the current scenario how people have already accepted COVID-19 as a part of their daily routine. That is from wearing masks to using hand sanitizers and other precautionary activities. Based on these observable changes and adapta...

This chapter focuses on the exclusive and social experiences of people in post-COVID-19 life. As it can be observed from the current scenario how people have already accepted COVID-19 as a part of their daily routine. That is from wearing masks to using hand sanitizers and other precautionary activities. Based on these observable changes and adapta...

Objective Scholars have debated the COVID-19's full and partial lockdowns' effectivity to control the transmission of the new case. They emphasized the provision of required economic and social resources worldwide. Past literature related to COVID-19 has contributed little evidence to examine the efficacy of full and partial lockdown measures with...

Background: The purpose of the current study was to develop an instrument that could measure the level of fear of affliction among people from pandemic or any other catastrophe. Methods: The study was formulated in to two phases, where the first phase contributed in item pool generation through theoretical knowledge and using in-depth interview met...

Purpose Gaslighting a form of abusive manipulation both emotional and psychological is a growing phenomenon in recent times. However, as of yet, there is a scarcity of a valid and reliable instrument which can measure the severity of gaslighting in victims of interpersonal relationships abuse. The purpose of this study is the development of an inst...

Objectives: Sociocultural factors in the aftermath of any pandemic can play a role in increasing suicidal behavior like suicidal ideation, suicidal attempts, or suicide. The authors discuss the risk and predisposing factors for suicidal ideation among mental health patients in four developing countries (Bangladesh, Colombia, India and Pakistan), t...

Objectives: Sociocultural factors in the aftermath of any pandemic can play a role in increasing suicidal behavior like suicidal ideation, suicidal attempts, or suicide. The authors discuss the risk and predisposing factors for suicidal ideation among mental health patients in four developing countries (Bangladesh, Colombia, India and Pakistan), th...

Background: Since the emergence of a coronavirus disease (2019-nCoV) in December 2019, the whole world is in a state of chaos. Isolation strategy with quarantine is a useful model in controlling transmission and rapid spread. As a result, people remained at home and disrupted their outside daily activities. It led to the closure of educational inst...

Purpose Since the emergence of a coronavirus disease (2019-nCoV) in December 2019, the whole world is in a state of chaos. Isolation strategy with quarantine is a useful model in controlling transmission and rapid spread. As a result, people remained at home and disrupted their outside daily activities. It led to the closure of educational institut...

Purpose There is an ever-increasing number of patients suffering from various forms of acute and chronic pain and getting treatment for such ailments is a basic human right. Opioid analgesics remain one way of managing and attending to such patients. However, due to the prevalence of opiophobia, many doctors avoid prescribing opioid-based medicines...

The chapter explored the various psycho-social issues that the general masses are still suffering from due to the sudden arrival of COVID-19 pandemic and how the impending uncertainties, regarding almost every aspect of routine life and their own existence, played a major role in moderating the effects of these psycho-social issues. Additionally, a...

Introduction: Although the translation and the validation of the McLean Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder (MSI-BPD) are performed in various languages and samples, no study has established the validity and reliability of the Urdu version of MSI-BPD in individuals with cardiac problems. Materials and Methods: The Urdu version...

Background: Since the emergence of a coronavirus disease (2019-nCoV) in December 2019, the whole world is in a state of chaos. Isolation strategy with quarantine is a useful model in controlling transmission and rapid spread. As a result, people remained at homes and disrupted their outside daily activities. It led to the closure of educational ins...

Background: Attachment theories of Bowlby (1969); and Ainsworth (1979) are broadly applied approaches for comprehending emotional attachment and dissociation, as well as alexithymia in people. These frameworks have also been used multiple times to explain social media addiction. However, aside from theoretical suggestions and recommendations, there...

Background: Previous studies suggested a link among loneliness, inter-parental conflict and emotional intelligence in adolescents. Most researches, however, have tended to emphasis on children's shy behavior in considering the effects of emotional intelligence on inter-parental conflict. This present cross-sectional study extends this body of study...

Background: Attachment theories of Bowlby (1969); and Ainsworth (1979) are broadly applied approaches for comprehending emotional attachment and dissociation, as well as alexithymia in people. These frameworks have also been used multiple times to explain social media addiction. However, aside from theoretical suggestions and recommendations, there...

The current COVID-19 pandemic has quickly spread its root all over the globe in very short span. With no proper treatment, advice about isolating the most vulnerable population, which is that of the elderly individuals has been made. However, with isolation comes a lot of other mental health issues which the current study attempted to highlight. Th...

Background: Since the very beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, the researcher community is working day and night gathering data, writing articles to aware the general public of the various issues associated with the pandemic. However, in pursue of delivering fast and quick information to the public, in some cases ethical considerations were not properl...

Background: The current pandemic has disrupted the whole globe in a couple of months and along with it has brought several major issues. One of those global threats is the rapidly increasing unemployment and the impending threat of suicides associated with it.

Background: With the start of COVID-19, a general concern for the health and safety of people remained the chief priority for medical health professionals. Likewise, one concern which was initially overlooked was for the pregnant women and the newborn child's health during the pandemic. With recent reports of an excessive increase in pregnancy duri...

The Role of Interventions to Manage and Reduce Covid-19 Mortality Rate of the COVID-19 Patients worldwide

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has a severe psychosocial impact on individuals' mental health, particularly those who are living in quarantine houses with restricted access of face-to-face interaction and conventional psychosocial interventions. Chronic infection and organisms' suppression strategies help in reducing and controlling the rapid tra...

Objective: Before the beginning of COVID-19, pandemic Pakistan and India are in a state of dramatic tension due to the recent lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir by India, after removing its autonomous status. The current study focuses on the mental health issues currently brewing within Jammu and Kashmir amidst the previous lockdown by India and the cur...

The increase in organisms transference and infectious pandemics across the globe have been accelerated by an increase in travel, international exchange and global changes in earth’s climate. COVID-19, a virus caused by the novel corona virus that was initially identified on December 2019, in Wuhan city of China is currently affecting 146 territorie...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the moderating role of social support between social anxiety and maladaptive daydreaming among university students. Furthermore,it was to examine the relationship among social anxiety, maladaptive daydreaming and social support among university students. The sample consisted of 200 university students...