Sami Hamdan
University of Pittsburgh
23 Papers
32 Citations
Sami Hamdan is an academic researcher from University of Pittsburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Anxiety. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 13 publications. Previous affiliations of Sami Hamdan include Children's Medical Center of Dallas.
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Papers
Effect of Parental Bereavement on Health Risk Behaviors in Youth: A 3-Year Follow-up
Sami Hamdan,David Mazariegos,Nadine M. Melhem,Giovanna Porta,Monica Walker Payne,David A. Brent +5 more
TL;DR: Examining the course of health risk behaviors (HRBs) during a 3-year period after a parent's death in bereaved youth compared with nonbereaved youth found parental bereavement is associated with higher HRBs in youth over time, even after controlling for other covariates associated with bereavement and HRBs.
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The Effect of Sudden Death Bereavement on the Risk for Suicide.
TL;DR: Sudden death bereavement was associated with increased suicide risk even after adjusting for psychiatric symptomatology, consistent with the conclusion that suicide bereavement is a risk factor for suicidal behavior.
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The Phenomenology and Course of Depression in Parentally Bereaved and Non-Bereaved Youth
TL;DR: BRD episodes were similar to LBD and CD with respect to number of symptoms, severity, functional impairment, duration, risk for recurrence, and most risk factors and correlates, supporting a diagnostic and therapeutic approach to BRD similar to that for non-bereavement-related depressions.
Pain Catastrophizing Mediates the Association Between Mindfulness and Psychological Distress in Chronic Pain Syndrome
TL;DR: Whether pain catastrophizing mediates the association between mindfulness and psychological distress and whether this model differs in patients suffering from chronic pain compared to patients experiencing nonchronic pain in a medical rehabilitation setting is examined.
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The associations between executive functions and different aspects of perceived pain, beyond the influence of depression, in rehabilitation setting
TL;DR: The results indicate that irrespective of the presence of depression, mental flexibility is correlated with pain disability and pain severity, and the relations between them remain much the same after removing the chronic pain patients from the analyses.
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