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Anxiety and depressive symptoms are associated with poor sleep health during a period of COVID-19-induced nationwide lockdown
Yazan A Al-Ajlouni, Su Hyun Park, Jude Alawa, Ghaith Shamaileh, Aziz Bawab, Wafaa M El-Sadr, Dustin T Duncan
Dec 24, 2020
BACKGROUND: Jordan, a Middle Eastern country, declared a state of national emergency due to COVID-19 and a strict nationwide lockdown on 17 March 2020, banning all travel and movement around the country, potentially impacting...
Infectious Diseases Mental Health Public Health sleep medicine Adult Anxiety covid-19 Communicable Disease Control Depression Female Humans Jordan Male Mental Health Online Social Networking prevalence Psychological Techniques SARS-CoV-2 Sleep Hygiene Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders Social Isolation Surveys and Questionnaires
Rights without borders? Learning from the institutional response to Iraqi refugee children in Jordan
The principle of universality is a cornerstone of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Study of displaced Iraqi children in Jordan reveals the political and economic factors that can militate against universality in...
Rights without borders? Learning from the institutional response to Iraqi refugee children in Jordan
The principle of universality is a cornerstone of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Study of displaced Iraqi children in Jordan reveals the political and economic factors that can militate against universality in...
Attitudes Toward Wife Beating Among Female and Male Adolescents in Jordan.
Previous research in the Middle East and North Africa has revealed justifying attitudes toward wife beating among adults, but little is known about adolescent attitudes and its predictors. Therefore, the purpose of the present...
Air Quality in Oxfam Superadobe Community Building, Zaatari camp, Jordan
In collaboration with Oxfam-Jordan, the University of Bath conducted air quality monitoring in a community centre in Zaatari refugee camp over one week in May 2018. Two buildings were monitored, a superadobe (sand bag) structure...
Risk, Reliability and Resilience
'Neolithization' pathway refers to the development of adaptations that characterized subsequent Neolithic life, sedentary occupations, and agriculture. In the Levant, the origins of these human behaviors are widely argued to...
Archaeobotanical evidence reveals the origins of bread 14,400 years ago in northeastern Jordan.
Amaia Arranz-Otaegui, Lara Gonzalez Carretero, Monica N Ramsey, Dorian Q Fuller, Tobias Richter
Jun 24, 2019
The origins of bread have long been associated with the emergence of agriculture and cereal domestication during the Neolithic in southwest Asia. In this study we analyze a total of 24 charred food remains from Shubayqa 1, a...
Mentally Fit
Why do some people's minds seem conspicuous, disabled, and ill-fitting in some contexts and not others? This special issue presents articles about people in Jordan, Uganda, the United Kingdom and the United States who live with...
Air Quality in Oxfam Superadobe Community Building, Zaatari camp, Jordan
In collaboration with Oxfam-Jordan, the University of Bath conducted air quality monitoring in a community centre in Zaatari refugee camp over one week in May 2018. Two buildings were monitored, a superadobe (sand bag) structure...