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| Prof. Omer El-Rufaie | | | Professor | | Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science | | | Email: | elrufaie@uaeu.ac.ae |
College of Medicine and Health Sciences
United Arab Emirates University
P.O.Box 17666, Al-Ain
United Arab Emirates |
| Degree | University | Year |
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| MBBS | Khartoum | 1966 |
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| DPM (Joint Board of the Royal Colleges of Physicians & Surgeons of Uk) | 1974 | | MRC Psych (The Royal college of Psychiatrist, UK) | 1974 | | FRC Psych (The Royal college of Psychiatrist, UK) | 1989 |
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| Associate/Professor, FMHS, UAE University | 23/6/1990-Present | | Chair of Psychiatry | 26/3/2001-Present | | Assistant/Associate Professor, King Faisal University, Damam, Saudia | 1982 - 1990 |
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| Research Interest |
| (1) Psychiatric Epidemiology
(2) Primary Care Psychiatry
(3) Transcultural Psychiatry |
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| Selected Publications |
| (1) Ghubash, R, El Rufaie, O, Moselhy, H. et al. (2010). Subjective life satisfaction and mental disorders among older adults in UAE in general population. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry, Vol.25, 458-465.
(2) Eapen, V. and El-Rufaie, O.(2008). United Arab Emirates (UAE). International Psychiatry, Vol.5, No.2, 38-40.
(3) El-Rufaie, O.E.F., (2005). Primary Care Psychiatry: Pertinent Arabian Perspectives. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, Vol.11, No.3, 449-458.
(4) Ghubash, R., El-Rufaie, O., Zoubeidi, T., Al-Shboul, Q.M. and Sabri S.M. (2004). Profile of mental disorders among the elderly United Arab Emirates population: sociodemographic correlates. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 19, 344-351.
(5) El-Rufaie, O., Al-Sabosy, M., Abuzeid, M.S. and Ghubash, R. (2002). Personality profile among primary care patients: Experimenting with the Arabic IPDE ICD-10. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 104, 1-5.
(6) Ghubash, R., Daradkeh, T., El-Rufaie, O. and Abou-Saleh, M. (2001). A comparison of the validity of the two psychiatric screening questionnaires: Arabic General Health Questionnaire (AGHQ) and Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) in UAE, using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis. European Psychiatry, 16, 122-126.
(7) El-Rufaie, O.E.F., Al-Sabosy, M.M.A., Bener, A and Abuzeid, M.S.O. (1999). Somatised mental disorder among primary care Arab patients: I: Prevalence, clinical and sociodemographic characteristics. Journal of Psychosomatic Research Vol.46, No.6, 549-555.
(8) El-Rufaie, O.E.F., Bener, A., Ali, T and Abuzeid, M.S. (1999). Psychiatric morbidity among hypertensive men: A controlled study. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, Vol.53, No.1, 41-44.
(9) Daradkeh, T., Ghubash, R. and El-Rufaie, O. (1999). The rationale, development, reliability and validity of a new screening psychiatric instrument. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 34, 223-228.
(10) El-Rufaie, O.E.F., Bener, A., Ali, T.A. and Abuzeid, M.S.O. (1997). Psychiatric morbidity among Type 2 diabetic patients: A controlled primary care survey. Primary care Psychiatry,3, 189-194.
(11) El-Rufaie, O.E.F. and Daradkeh, T.(1997). The Arabic General Health Questionnaire (AGHQ): A culture-relevant version. Primary Care Psychiatry, 3, 141-144.
(12) El-Rufaie, O.E.F., Bener, A., Abuzeid, M.S.O. and Ali, T.A. (1997). Sexual dysfunction among type II diabetic men: A controlled study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Vol.43, No.6, 605-612.
(13) Ghubash, R. and El-Rufaie, O.E.F. (1997). Psychiatric morbidity among sentenced male prisoners in Dubai: Transcultural perspectives. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, Vol 8, No.2, 440-446.
(14) El-Rufaie, O.E.F. and Daradkeh, T.K. (1997). Psychiatric screening in primary health care: Transcultural application of psychiatric instruments. Primary Care Psychiatry, 3, 37-43.
(15) El-Rufaie, O.E.F., Absood, G. and Abou-Saleh, M.T.(1997). The Primary Care Anxiety and Depression (PCAD) Scale: A culture oriented screening scale. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 95, 119-124. The abstract of this paper is also published in the newsletter, PSYCH SCAN of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
(16) El-Rufaie, O.F. and Daradkeh, T. (1996). Validation of the Arabic versions of the 30 and 12 - item General Health Questionnaires in primary care patients. British Journal of Psychiatry, 169, 662-664.
(17) El-Rufaie, O.E.F. and Absood, G.H. (1995). Re-testing the validity of the Arabic version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HAD) Scale in primary health care. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 30, 26-31
(18) El-Rufaie, O.E.F and Absood, G.H.(1994) Validity Study of the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (S.R.Q-20) in Primary Health Care in The United Arab Emirates. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. Vol.4, 45-53.
(19) El-Rufaie O.E.F. and Absood, G.H. (1993). Minor Psychiatric Morbidity in Primary Health Care: Prevalence, Nature and Severity. The International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol.39 No.3, 159-166.
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