Publications by authors named "Khalid A Mufti"
The psychological and psychiatric impact of great natural disasters are beginning to be understood leading to new methods of prevention, intervention and mitigation. There is limited data from the Asian continent, however, which has been the location of some of the greatest disasters of recent times. In this paper, we outline the psychosocial intervention efforts from nine Asian nations when confronted with large-scale natural catastrophic events.
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- Schizophrenia is a long-term mental health disorder that affects about 1% of the population and has significant impacts on physical health, social life, and finances.
- In the last ten years, atypical antipsychotic medications have emerged as the primary treatment option for managing schizophrenia.
- These developments highlight the importance of effective medication in addressing the challenges posed by this chronic illness.
Heroin addiction is a chronic, relapsing and remitting condition. Each year 2-5% of addicts discontinue drug use permanently and 1-2% die, mostly of overdose (Robins, 1993). A study of 129 opiate-addicted patients on a monthly maintenance regimen found that those with a family history of opium use had an earlier age at onset (Chaudhry , 1991).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere was a large influx of Afghan refugees into Pakistan during the 1980s and in particular after the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. That refugees have high rates of mental health problems has been well established (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The rates of psychiatric disorders might be very high in Afghanistan. The country has faced many years of war and violence and therefore this is hardly surprising. We are describing the results of a community survey conducted by clinicians in a small village of Eastern Afghanistan.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychiatric morbidity among Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan.
J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad
October 2005
Background: A review of the literature shows that refugees in different parts of the world have high rates of psychological and emotional problems. However, psychiatric morbidity among Afghan refugees in Pakistan has been poorly studied. Most of the studies of psychiatric disorders come from western countries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Drug addiction has increased rapidly during the last 2 decades in Pakistan, however little has been done to explore and evaluate different treatments which are available locally. This paper describes five years follow up of heroin addicts from Peshawar, Pakistan, after an extended period of in patient detoxification.
Methods: This was a longitudinal cohort study of 100 clients who were followed up for 5 years.