Cross-cultural comparison of mental illness stigma and help-seeking attitudes: a multinational population-based study from 16 Arab countries and 10,036 individuals.

Background: There is evidence that culture deeply affects beliefs about mental illnesses' causes, treatment, and help-seeking. We aimed to explore and compare knowledge, attitudes toward mental illness and help-seeking, causal attributions, and help-seeking recommendations for mental illnesses across various Arab countries and investigate factors related to attitudes toward help-seeking.

Methods: We carried out a multinational cross-sectional study using online self-administered surveys in the Arabic language from June to November 2021 across 16 Arab countries among participants from the general public.

Genetic diagnosis in Sudanese and Tunisian families with syndromic intellectual disability through exome sequencing.

Background: Intellectual disability is a form of neurodevelopmental disorders that begin in childhood and is characterized by substantial intellectual difficulties as well as difficulties in conceptual, social, and practical areas of living. Several genetic and nongenetic factors contribute to its development; however, its most severe forms are generally attributed to single-gene defects. High-throughput technologies and data sharing contributed to the diagnosis of hundreds of single-gene intellectual disability subtypes.

Scaling up mental health services in Sudan: Sudanese psychiatrists' opinions.

We invited 108 psychiatrists of Sudanese origin, working in and outside Sudan, to take part in a study looking at the most appropriate method for scaling up mental health services in Sudan. Of those psychiatrists who were approached, 81 (75%) responded. Among the respondents, 30 (37%) resided and worked in Sudan, and 51 (63%) worked outside Sudan (mostly in the UK and Arab Gulf States).

Intelligence quotient (IQ) among children with epilepsy: National epidemiological study - Sudan.

Background: Many studies of selected groups of children with epilepsy have demonstrated an association between epilepsy and cognitive deficits. The aim of this study was to assess the intellectual skills of children with epilepsy and to investigate the influence of gender, age at seizure onset, type of epilepsy, antiepileptic drug used, and control of epilepsy on their intellectual function.

Methods: This is a descriptive prospective study in which one hundred and eighty-seven patients at school age (6-14 years) were recruited.

Classification and management of epilepsy and epileptic syndromes in a cohort of 202 school children- a 2 year follow up study- Sudan.

Background: In this paper, seizure types, and epilepsy syndromes are elucidated as per ILAE (2010) classification. A brief outline of the antiepileptic drug regimens used and the outcome of seizure control in a two -year period is presented. The applicability of the ILAE classification in resource limited countries has been revisited.

Child and adolescent psychiatry training and services in the Middle East region: a current status assessment.

Mental health is a key component of health, yet appropriate care is limited. Evidence concerning child and adolescent mental health has predominantly come from western countries, while the Middle East region, with a large youth population, has reported very little on it. This original, cross-sectional study of child and adolescent psychiatry in the Middle East provides an assessment of current postgraduate programs, services and what is needed to build workforce capacity.

Congenital cystic adenamatoid malformation: A case report.

We here report a rare case of congenital cystic adenamatoid malformation[CCAM]. This case presented early in the neonatal period with bilateral lung cysts and have favorable outcome. However, the patient continued to be oxygen dependent for more than six weeks.