Rameez Ali Mahesar- Master of Science
- Research Coordinator at Greenwich University
Rameez Ali Mahesar
- Master of Science
- Research Coordinator at Greenwich University
I'm looking for collaborators on media and suicide & media reporting practices of health and climate issues
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Background:
Pakistani television dramas often depict scenes involving suicide that may affect the psychological wellbeing of viewers. We aimed to examine the effects of suicide depiction in Pakistani television dramas on their viewers.
Methods:
In April 2023, we searched the YouTube website for Urdu-language television dramas released between 20...
Purpose
Social protection states the public-mandated (strategies and programmes) to address the vulnerability and risk among poor and near-poor households. Social protection must not only help people meet their basic needs but also contribute to the long-term well-being and broader societal goals of equity, social justice and empowerment. The role...
Background
Adolescence is a crucial life stage for the individual identity formation. The growing employment of social media and screen-exposure among teenagers and the concerning rise in suicide ideation rates in this susceptible group both suggested this study. Thus, we explored the association between adolescents’ suicidal ideation and their dai...
This study compares the features of homicide-suicide in Russia and Pakistan. To understand this, we conducted a content analysis of news reports about homicide-suicide published in Pakistani and Russian newspapers between March 2020 and May 2023. We identified 35 and 104 homicide-suicide cases in Pakistani and Russian media, respectively. Men were...
This article discusses the critical issues of mental health in Pakistan, highlighting the significant burden of mental disorders in the country, and limitations of mental health services which are under-addressed. In particular, the authors discuss the under-reporting of the epidemiological rates of mental disorders and the scarcity of mental healt...
Addressing suicide and mental health issues among psychiatrists, particularly during a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic is important. several factors contribute to this risk, such as long duty hours, burnout, emotional exhaustion, exposure to secondary trauma, and the impact of the pandemic on the mental health of healthcare workers. This paper...
Homicide-suicide is a tragic event characterized by multiple fatalities within the intimate relationships, familial bonds, and community networks. Our aim was to explore the extent of coverage of homicide-suicide cases in the newspaper reports delivered in Pakistan during the COVID-19 lockdown (March-August 2020). We conducted a quantitative conten...
There is a lack of evidence regarding the rate of adherence to the World health Organization (WhO) media guidelines of vernacular newspapers reporting on suicides in Pakistan. also, the relevance of this report is based on the lack of official data regarding the number of suicides across the country. the aim of this study was to explore the rate of...
Suicidal hanging is common in Pakistan and is considered a serious challenge globally. We conducted a content analysis of reports about suicidal hangings published in six English-language
newspapers in Pakistan between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2022, employing a web�searching technique.
124 news reports were yielded; suicidal authors were mal...
Background:
Suicide is a social relevant issue and a leading cause of deaths in the world; it has been reported that COVID-19 has significantly increased the rate of suicide worldwide. This study aimed to review media reporting on suicide cases occurred in Pakistan during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Subjects and methods:
A content analysis has been p...
Numerous studies have been conducted globally to assess the compliance level of newspapers with the World Health Organization’s media guidelines for responsible suicide reporting. To identify and review such studies conducted in Muslim-majority countries between 2014 and 2022, we searched PubMed and Google Scholar databases. We identified 12 eligib...
Background: This study was aimed to observe newspaper reports about non-fatal suicide attempts in Pakistan during the COVID-19 lockdown. Methods: We performed content analysis of news reports about incomplete suicides from four vernacular newspapers of Pakistan between March and August 2020. Results: A total of 87 news reports about suicide attempt...
Background: This study was aimed to observe newspaper reports about non-fatal suicide attempts in Pakistan during the COVID-19 lockdown. Methods: We performed content analysis of news reports about incomplete suicides from four vernacular newspapers of Pakistan between March and August 2020. Results: A total of 87 news reports about suicide attempt...
Background:
Assessing suicidal behaviours among students would help to understand the burden and enhance suicide prevention.
Aims:
We aimed to determine the prevalence of suicidal behaviour among students living in Muslim-majority countries.
Method:
We followed Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. A sy...
In today's age of globalization, media plays a very constructive role in imparting the information throughout the globe. The media has variety of types through which it conveys the information in different ways in different spheres-especially academic institutions. With this reference, newspapers have been playing a very significant role in dissemi...
Transgender people are the most overlooked and deprived communities globally, especially in a conservative society like Pakistan. Although the government of Pakistan has passed specific laws to impart equal rights to transgender community, peoples; conceptions about transgender remain unchanged. The literature shows mush less attention has been pro...
The studies of newspaper media on women issues have widely been carried out across the globe, but the question of how prominently are those issues covered in press media is left unanswered. To secure the answer to this question, this study was carried out doing a quantitative content analysis of daily Jeejal newspaper. The six-month coverage of the...
Newspapers are the most important sources of information about health. They are the most influential tools to educate the masses about health. Therefore, it was of profound significance to understand how they work on the health sector of Pakistan. The content analysis of health news was carried out throughout the whole year of 2020. For this, an En...
The present study entitled asThe Question of Woman’s Identity and Hijab: A Critical Study of Sabyn Javeri’s “The Urge” (Hijabistan, 2019). It is a critical study of women suppression in hijab from patriarchy. The study aims to explore suffrage of women in the story of Hijabistan (2019) “The Urge”. The qualitative method has been applied and for dis...
Background
Newspaper coverage is a key source of cancer information. Although it was of profound significance to understand how the local newspapers of Pakistan cover the cancer news.
Aims and Objectives
To counter this, the present study was aimed to examine the cancer news coverage of the last year 2020.
Materials and Methods
Using content anal...
Commercial developments, innovative initiatives plus new technologies are affecting the future of public broadcast monopolies as well as the new businesses in the field of media. Earlier even a decade back situation, media were in a state of flux and uncertainty especially in developing countries. Now media landscapes appear on the brink of radical...
Television agricultural shows (TVAS) have been playing a very significant role in proffering a fast information and knowledge concerning the agriculture to the millions of farmers in global arena. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of television on the enhancement of farmers' agricultural knowledge, and it is supposed to investigat...
The aim of the current study is to examine the coverage of crimes in daily The Nation-an English language newspaper of Pakistan. To meet the objectives, the quantitative content analysis technique based on the last year of 2020 was carried out. First, the Karachi edition of the newspaper was selected, and then the crimes related news were generated...
The current study is an attempt to determine the intensity of social media use among university students and the impact of social media on students' academic performance. The survey based on the questionnaire was run to gather the required data for which 100 copies of the questionnaire were administered among the students-both 65 male and 35 female...
The position of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in the face of the wealth of information and skills that are passed on from one generation to another. (ICH) is expressed through the progression, expressions, knowledge and skills they represent and the associated objects and cultural spaces that people differentiate as a component of their cultur...
T h i s p a p e r d i s c u s s e s I s l a m a n d e d u c a ti o n w it h r e f e r e n c e t o a c a d e m i c c o n c e p t s o f t h e education. It is very difficult task to build Islamic education in the non - Muslims countries, because non - Muslims have different traditions, cultural, political, and also in education. But we define some im...
History avouches for decades that without concerning their personal sentiments, emotions and feelings, women have been treated as properties and have also been seen working like the servants in their own homes. This research paper aims at examining systematically the newspaper coverage of violence against women in Sindh.A quantitative content analy...
In today‘s age of globalization, media plays a very constructive role in imparting information throughout
the globe. Various types of media conveys information to different segments of society and has immense
role in dissemination of information especially in academic institutions. With reference to this,
newspapers play a very significant role...
Television agricultural shows (TVAS) have been playing a very significant role in disseminating
information and knowledge concerning the agriculture to millions of farmers around the globe. The study
aims to assess the effects of television agricultural shows on the enhancement of farmer‘s agricultural
knowledge. This study also investigates the...
An abstract is a short brief of a completed research. It is an amalgamation of different key contents supported in the chain-process like, introduction, problem statement,
The string of research conferences is now getting extended all around the globe. Pakistan, as a developing country, has also woken up to the significance of research phenomenon. Keeping in mind the significant and important role of research in bringing about social change in the nations, the country (Pakistan) is increasingly organizing the nationa...
Suicide issue is increasing at alarming rate and is being highlighted by media. This study was aimed at securing the answer to the question; to what extent is this issue being covered and treated by media? Content analysis technique was applied in this study. Content analysis technique in press is used to investigate how the societal issues in comm...
‘Media is situated within, and fully interwoven with, many other social practices, to the extent where crime and media representations are inseparable’. Criminologist must, however, be alert to the ways in which media create perceptions in order to understand that things are not as always as they are presented. Criminologist has to be a well-versed...
The work environment plays a constructive role in clubbing the workers together in the
certain organizations, institutions and companies as well. It is well said that a happy,
hardworking and satisfied employee is the biggest of assets possessed by an organization.
This paper was at pains in Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Shaheed Benazir Aba...
Pakistan came into being on the basis of two nation theory. There are number of subjects that are offered as compulsory at the secondary level of education. Islamic education is one of the subject that is compulsory at school level in Pakistan. Being a religious subject for Muslim students studying in Pakistani schools, it is considered to be impor...
Terrorism in Pakistan has made the environment
gruesome for children with special focus. Army public school
is witnessed in this regard. On December 16, 2018, it befell
the school on the spur of moment. This terror attack dispersed
the fracas around the setting of school located in Peshawar.
On the second day, integrated media brought the fatal inc...
Abstract. Without any shadow of a doubt, media is playing its top-notch role in imparting information among masses but in what manner is a hanging matter. Thus, the choice for media in presenting something in a good or bad manner stays open at best. This paper, however, elaborates the ethics for media with regard to Pakistani perspective. The paper...
The effort of Marshall McLuhan to explain the ecosystem of our modern media is tainted by his failure to understand the significance of socio-historical context. The episodic view he presents of history carries its reader from pre-alphabetic tribal people see media. Print, beyond doubt, ushers alphabets to extreme phase and detribalizes and de-coll...
This paper is aimed at observing the coverage of suicide issues in Daily Kawish newspaper-a well-recognized Sindhi language newspaper. Content analysis technique is applied in this study. News items excluding editorials, articles, columns and letters to editor features were analyzed.
Results show that 38 items in terms of frequency were reported by...
Pakistan came into being on the basis of two nation theory. There are number of subjects that are offered as compulsory at the secondary level of education. Islamic education is one of the subject that is compulsory at school level in Pakistan. Being a religious subject for Muslim students studying in Pakistani schools, it is considered to be impor...
Globally, Cultural and Creative Industry (CCI) emerged as a big economy in first decade of 21 st century. It has contributed 3 per cent to global economy. Among others countries, US, Australia, UK, China, Malaysia and India are getting maximum benefits from these industries, as CCI in US, Australia, UK, China, Malaysia and India contributed 4.2 per...
Facebook, beyond a doubt, has become the most essential part of one's especially university student's daily life. It benefits the large number of students and when they exchange information with one another for educational goals, making friends, also other different kinds of activities as well. Therefore, this paper explains the usage of Facebook a...
Globally, Cultural and Creative Industry (CCI) emerged as a big economy in first decade of 21 st century. It has contributed 3 per cent to global economy. Among others countries, US, Australia, UK, China, Malaysia and India are getting maximum benefits from these industries, as CCI in US, Australia, UK, China, Malaysia and India contributed 4.2 per...
Abstract: This paper explains the WhatsApp usage level among the students, their periods choice to use WhatsApp, their times
surfing WhatsApp and to know how much ratio of the respondents use WhatsApp. Survey technique was used in this study for which
300 students of 1st to 4th years from three categories as BS, MSC and MA programs were selected as...
It is globally an undeniable fact that ranking of a university depends on how much attention it pays on ameliorating its research segment. How many research scholars does it produce annually? How much is it careful towards checks and balances in the ways the students come through? How much is it looking after the policies, planning and quality of e...
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Islam prohibits from doing suicide and declares it a serious crime. People from different occupations, religions, cultures, and demographies have been noticed to have done suicide, but I have not come across any single news about suicide done by a Muslim prayer leader or Islamic scholar - it's my experience.
Can anyone tell me if they have ever received such news? Maybe, they are not reported in the newspapers - if this is the case, then why? If these are not the cases, the Muslims with different occupations do suicide, then what protects Muslim prayer leaders or Islamic scholars from suicide, even being insufficiently paid with more challenges in their lives compared to people different in their occupations? Even though Islam prohibits suicide generally not only Muslims, and threatens all humans equally irrespective of ethnicity, religion, culture, demography, etc.
My account was registered with an email of an institute I worked with previously. Since I'm no longer working with that institute now, I can't use their official email and thus my account was disabled because of the email. However l, this is the new profile but can't understand how to restore back my publications to this profile.
