Urdu Adaptation and Validation of Social Interaction Anxiety Scale: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis.

The Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS) is a globally used scale for clinical diagnostic purposes for social anxiety disorder (SAD). This article investigates the psychometric properties of the SIAS, followed by its adaptation and validation in Urdu. The study consisted of two phases.

Adaptation and validation of the west haven-yale multidimensional pain inventory for Pakistani population.

Objective: To evaluate the adapted version of West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory for patients with chronic pain.

Methods: The multiphase study was conducted from January to December 2021. The factorial structure of the Urdu version of West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory was evaluated on a sample of adult patients aged 18- 45 years with non-specific chronic pain, taken from public and private hospitals and clinics of Lahore, Pakistan.

Perfectionism, mattering and loneliness in young adulthood of Generation-Z.

Introduction: Young adulthood is a transitional period where adults are faced with new social and psychological roles. So, in order to matter and to form relationship with others, they become vulnerable to set exaggerated high standards for themselves and others, which can eventually lead them to experience loneliness.

Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the relationship of perfectionism, mattering with loneliness in young adults of Gen-Z after controlling for covariates.

Relationship beliefs, attachment styles and depression among infertile women.

The stigma of infertility in Pakistan has been conceded as a stressful clinical condition, significantly affecting women's over all wellbeing and spousal relationships. The present study aimed to investigate the connection between relationship beliefs, attachment styles and depression among infertile women. Ex post facto research design was employed.

Role of Parenting and Psychosocial Correlates Contributing to Social Anxiety in Asian Adolescents: A Systematic Review.

Background: The purpose of the study was to explore social anxiety in adolescents as well as associated factors, such as parenting styles, self-esteem, quality of life, emotional intelligence, and brain activity, in social anxiety.

Methods: A systematic review of articles related to social anxiety in adolescents, associated factors, and brain activity from 2012 to 2022 was performed. Google Scholar, PubMed, and Science Direct were used as research gates to find the relevant articles.

Randomized control trial of a culturally adapted behavioral activation therapy for Muslim patients with depression in Pakistan.

Background: Behavioral activation therapy (BA) is as effective as cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) in treating depression and can be delivered by practitioners with much less psychological training, making it particularly suitable for low resource settings. BA that is culturally adapted for Muslims (BA-M) is a culturally adapted form of BA that has been found acceptable and feasible for Muslims with depression in the United Kingdom and Turkey; however, this is the first time that its efficacy has been determined through a definitive randomized controlled trial.

Aim: To compare the effectiveness of BA-M with CBT for Muslim patients with depression in Pakistan.

Culturally adapted psychosocial interventions (CaPSI) for early psychosis in a low-resource setting: study protocol for a large multi-center RCT.

Background: Psychosis treatment guidelines recommend cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and family intervention (FI), for all patients with first episode psychosis (FEP), though guidance borrows heavily from literature in adults from high income countries. To our knowledge, there are few randomized controlled trials (RCTs) examining the comparative effect of these commonly endorsed psychosocial interventions in individuals with early psychosis from high-income countries and no such trials from low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The present study aims to confirm the clinical-efficacy and cost-effectiveness of delivering culturally adapted CBT (CaCBT) and culturally adapted FI (CulFI) to individuals with FEP in Pakistan.

Working memory span and receptive vocabulary assessment in Urdu speaking children with speech sound disorder.

Emerging evidence suggests that impaired speech may be related to reduced working memory (WM). The current study aimed to validate and compare the influence of articulation, short-term memory (STM), WM, and receptive vocabulary abilities of Pakistani children with speech sound disorder (SSD; N = 50) versus typically developing (TD; N = 30) children aged 7-13 years. Assessments included the Test for Assessment of Articulation and Phonology in Urdu (TAAPU), Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4, translated to Urdu (U-PPVT-4), and Digit Memory Test (DMT) used to determine speech articulation, receptive vocabulary, and memory abilities respectively.

Stuttering related and psychosocial predictors of impact of stuttering.

Objective: To investigate the psychosocial factors having an impact on persons with a stuttering problem.

Methods: The correlation study was conducted from October 2016 to February 2018 at hospitals, speech clinics and educational institutes of Lahore. The sample comprised of young adults aged 16-30 years of either gender with stuttering problem.

Motherhood in Alternative Detention Conditions: A Preliminary Case-Control Study.

Many women in detention are mothers and often the sole caregivers of their children. Italy, as most European countries, allows mothers to keep their children with them in detention, with the aim of preserving the fundamental bond between mother and child. Since prison does not seem to provide a good environment for the child's growth, there are different alternative residential solutions, such as Group Homes.

Quality of Life among Caregivers of Patients Diagnosed with Major Chronic Disease during COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia.

Quality of life (QoL) is considered one of the measures of health outcomes. Limited research studies have assessed family caregivers' QoL, especially among patients diagnosed with chronic disease. This study measures the QoL of caregivers who guardian patients diagnosed with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and/or other diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Experiences of Mothers Who Relinquished Their Child for Adoption in Pakistan: A Qualitative Study.

The literature suggests long-term consequences and lack of support for birthmothers following relinquishment of their child for adoption (Memarnia in Listening to the experience of birth mothers whose children have been taken into care or adopted, 2014). But there was not any work done to study in-depth experiences of birthmothers after giving away their child in Pakistan. So, the purpose of the present study was to explore the experiences of mothers who relinquished their child for adoption.

The Link between Chronic Pain and Depression in Low Income Country, Pakistan.

Objective: To examine the relationship of subjective and physiological variables of pain in relation to depression among patients with chronic pain.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted at the Centre for Clinical Psychology in Lahore, Pakistan, from January to June 2016, and comprised patients with organic, identifiable chronic pain presenting at various government, semi-government and private hospitals. Data was collected using a personal history questionnaire, West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory and the depression subscale of the Symptom Checklist Revised.

Corrigendum to "Data for the narrative skills of Urdu-speaking Preschoolers" [Data in Brief, 34 (2021) 106,737].

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Emotional journey of wives of spouses diagnosed with bipolar I disorder: moving from vicissitude towards reconciliation.

Purpose: Our present study was a qualitative investigation intending to explore the emotional journey of wives whose spouse has been diagnosed with Bipolar I Disorder, using a phenomenological design.

Method: Semi-structured face to face interviews were conducted with 5 wives of already diagnosed Bipolar I Disorder patients to uncover their lived experience in terms of the emotional journey they had had. For data analysis, we used Hycner's explicitation process.

Effect of maternal tolerance on behavioural problems in children with enuresis.

Objective: To determine the effect of maternal tolerance on behavioural problems in children with enuresis.

Methods: The cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted from January to November 2018 at the outpatient departments of three hospitals in Lahore and Sialkot district of the Punjab province in Pakistan. The sample comprised of mothers aged 23-50 years having children with enuresis visiting one public-sector tertiary-care hospital and two private-sector secondary-care hospitals.

Data for the narrative skills of Urdu-speaking preschoolers.

A total of 80 participants were recruited from three private middle SES schools of Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan to explore the narrative skills development in Urdu-speaking preschoolers aged between 4-and-5 years. Data collection was completed using a two-stage sampling technique (convenience and purposive). After obtaining parental consent, the participants were screened for their intellectual functioning.

Weight stigma and disordered eating behaviors in Pakistani overweight adolescents: the mediating role of body esteem.

Purpose: Weight stigma has been described as social devaluation of people on the basis of their weight and it is associated with negative consequences. The present study was designed to investigate weight stigma and its relationship with disordered eating behaviors in overweight adolescents. One of the main objectives of this study is to investigate the mediating role of body esteem between weight stigma and disordered eating behaviors in overweight adolescent girls.

Mediating role of body image between sexual functioning and marital intimacy in Pakistani women with breast cancer.

Objective: The current study aimed to explore the mediating role of body image (dissatisfaction) between sexual functioning (SF) and marital intimacy in Pakistani women with breast cancer.

Design/participants: Correlation research design was used. One hundred and eighteen women suffering from breast cancer with age (M = 39.

Insight-related beliefs and controllability appraisals contribute little to hallucinated voices: a transdiagnostic network analysis study.

Hallucinated voices cause high levels of distress and disability. Current theories suggest that insight-related beliefs, about internal or external origin, perceived source location, and appraisals of controllability are important in mediating the impact of these experiences but previous findings have been mixed. We report two open code and open data network analytic studies of items in the Psychotic Symptoms Ratings Scale for auditory verbal hallucinations (PSYRATS-AH) in a large sample of patients with hallucinated voices to examine the network structure of items at (1) first assessment, and (2) differences over two consecutive assessments during a wait-list period.

Perceived discrimination, social support, and psychological distress in transgender individuals.

The present study aimed to find the relationship among perceived discrimination, social support, and psychological distress in transgender individuals (TIs) and the predictors of psychological distress in TIs. A correlational research design was used in the present study. It was hypothesized that there would likely to be a positive relationship between perceived discrimination and psychological distress and that there would likely be a negative relationship between social support and psychological distress.

Systematic review showed that low and moderate prenatal alcohol and nicotine exposure affected early child development.

Aim: We systematically reviewed the literature on the influence of low and moderate amounts of prenatal alcohol and nicotine exposure on early child development. This paper also suggests possible directions for future research in order to tackle the controversial findings identified.

Methods: The PubMed and Web of Science electronic databases were searched together with the reference lists of the selected papers.

Social support, self-efficacy, cognitive coping and psychological distress in infertile women.

Purpose: The aims of this research were to investigate the relationship of social support, self-efficacy and cognitive coping with psychological distress, as well as, to determine the mediating role of self-efficacy and cognitive coping between social support and psychological distress in infertile women of Pakistan.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted to recruit 158 infertile women from six hospitals of Lahore, Pakistan. A demographic questionnaire, multidimensional scale of perceived social support, infertility self-efficacy scale, coping strategies questionnaire and depression anxiety stress scale were used to assess the study variables.

Speaking Fundamental Frequency of Native Urdu Speakers-A Pilot Study.

Objectives: This study aimed to find the normative fundamental frequency values for adult native Urdu speakers from Pakistan. The age and gender differences were also examined.

Method: A total of 71 participants aged between 21 and 50 years old (Men = 34, Women = 37) were recruited from University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

The relationship between social comparison and submissive behaviors in people with social anxiety: Paranoid social cognition as the mediator.

Biased evaluation fears and paranoid thoughts lead to various safety behaviors that are the cardinal features and perpetuating factors of social anxiety. The present study aimed to emphasize evaluative and paranoid thoughts that predispose and maintain this growing psychological condition. A cross-sectional research design was employed to explore the relationship between social comparison, paranoid social cognitions, and submissive behaviors in patients with social anxiety.