Publications by authors named "Senad Mehmedinovic"
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- In December 2019, a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, triggered a global pandemic that negatively impacted people's psychological needs due to isolation, fear, and economic downturns.
- The research aimed to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the mental health and perceived social support of individuals with disabilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, using tools to measure symptoms of depression, anxiety, and social support.
- Findings indicated that individuals with disabilities who contracted the virus experienced higher levels of somatization, anxiety, and depression compared to those who were not infected, highlighting the need for targeted mental health interventions for this population in the future.
Since the development of the original Support Intensity Scale-Adult Version (SIS-A) and the Support Intensity Scale-Child Version (SIS-C), the interest in supporting people with intellectual disabilities (ID) has changed. Resource allocation, better quality of resource utilization in the rehabilitation process, the development of support systems, and redefining the roles of organizations that support people with ID are just some of the changes. The aim of this study was to determine the factor structure of the SIS-C conducted on a sample of Bosnian-Herzegovinian (B&H) children (SISC B&H).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of the research is to examine depression in parents of children with cerebral palsy, with hypothesis to have more depressive symptom among mothers of children with cerebral palsy. The sample of examinees (between 23 and 62 age) was used in this research. The first subsample of examinees (N=23) was made of mothers (average 33±5.
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