​​​Ment​al Health

​The Mental Health stream at SONAM comprises of a group of faculty members working to promote quality education, service and research in the domain of mental health nursing by working on various issues related to it pertinent in Pakistan. Our key areas of research include but are not limited to:

  • Depression amongst women,
  • Community mental health services,
  • Stress among adolescents
  • Mindfulness in students, to name a few.​
Objectives

  • Provide a platform to mental health nurses to exchange their experiences, clinical and research work with group;

  • Enhance knowledge and skills among faculty, nursing staff and nursing students;

  • Collaborate with Dean, AKU-SONAM and CNO, AKUH about the committee activities;

  • Based on need assessment, organize mental health talks, presentations and workshops in collaboration with the Continuing Professional Education Development committee;

  • Strengthen evidence based practices in clinical setting via existing research evidence; 

  • Promote research in the area of mental health (in-patient, out-patient and community based).

  • Maintain a record of the committee's activities. ​

Members

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​​ ​Ambreen Tharani
Stream Lead
Assistant Professor, AKU-SONAM

ambreen.tharani@aku.edu


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Syeda Humera Qutb

Instructor, AKU-SONAM​

syeda.humera@aku.edu


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​Salima Farooq
Senior Instructor, AKU-SONAM

salima.farooq@aku.edu​ 


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​Shagufta Iqbal
Instructor, AKU-SONAM

shagufta.iqbal@aku.edu​ 


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​Sharifa Lalani
Assistant Professor, AKU-SONAM

sharifa.lalani@aku.edu​ 


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​Shehla Khan
Assistant Professor, AKU-SONAM

shehla.khan@aku.edu​ 



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​Razia Momin​
Clinical Preceptor, AKU-SONAM

razia.momin@aku.edu​ 

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Grants

  • ​​​Patient Education and Mind Diversion in Supportive Care | Ambreen Tharani 
    Grant under National Research Programme for Universities from Higher Commission of Pakistan | ​2012


  • Case-based Scenarios: Evidence Based Teaching Learning Strategy in Nursing Education Pharmacology Course | Nishat Tabassum
    Grant under Youth Development Programme | 2014

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Publications

  1. Shams, S., Jabbar, A. A., Nanji, K., Jan, R., & Tharani, A. (2018). Influence of supportive care on chemotherapy patients' self-care behaviour and satisfaction: A pilot study conducted in Karachi, Pakistan.​​ Indian journal of cancer, 55(1), 115.

  2. Tharani, A., Husain, Y., & Warwick, I. (2017). Learning environment and emotional well-being: A qualitative study of ​undergraduate nursing students. Nurse Education Today, 59,82–87.

  3. Sadruddin, S., Jan, R., Jabbar, A.A., Nanji, K., & Tharani, A. (2017). Patient education and mind diversion in supportive care. British Journal of Nursing (Onco Suppl) 26(10), S14-S19.

  4. Hirani, A., Ghazal, L., Dossa, K & Khalfan, Z., (2015). Art Therapy in Psychiatric Settings; A Step Towards Progress in Psychiatric Clients​. I-manager’s Journal on Nursing, 5 l (3). 

  5. Khalfan, Z., Ghazal, L., Dossa, K & Hirani, A (2015). Nurses' value conflict and its impact on their mentally ill clients. I-manager’s Journal on Nursing, 5 l(2). 

  6. Lakhdir, M., Nathwani , A., ali, N., Farooq, S, Azam. S., Khaliq A., Kadri.,M. (2019). Intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment: Predictors of child emotional maltreatment among 11 to 17 years old children residing in communities of Karachi, Pakistan. Child Abuse & Neglect , 91 (2019) 109–115 

  7. Farooq, S., F, Saeed, T., Parpio, Y., Lalani, N., Marjorie, M., (2017). Why Women Suffer Domestic Violence in Silence: Web-Based Responses to a Blog. Nurse Pract Today. 2017; 4(4):203-211​

  8. Lakhdir M, Farooq S. (2017) Factors associated with Child Maltreatment among children aged 11 to 17 years in community settings of Karachi, Pakistan using Belsky Ecological framework Journal of Interpersonal Violence 

  9. Lakhdir, M. Parpio, Y. S, Farooq (2017). Surveillance system for child abuse: bridging the gap between actual and hidden cases. J Pak Med Assoc. Jan; 67(1):126-127

  10. Shirin, S,   Farooq , S.  Parpio , Y  Karmaliani,R.  Asad ,N ,  Azam, I,  & Pasha , O (2016). Factors Affecting Depression among Married Women Living in Urban Squatter Settlements of Karachi, Pakistan. Open Journal of Epidemiology, 2016, 6, 80-87​

  11. Tharani, A., & Farooq, S., Gulzar, (2013) Non-compliance to antipsychotic medication: factors affecting and strategies to in overcome. JPMA, 63(4) 

  12. Tharani ,A & Farooq, S., A Navid, (2012). Community mental health services: a way forward to rehabilitate chronic mentally ill client in JAMC. J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad 2012;24(2)​

  13. Parpio. Y, Farooq, S., Gulzar, S Tharani, A., Javed, F., Ali, T, S... (2012) Factors Associated with Stress among Adolescents in the city of Nawabshah, Pakistan in JMPA Vol. 62, No. 11, November 2012 

  14. Iqbal, P, S., Ahmer, S., Farooq, S., Parpio, Y., Tharani, A., Khan, A, M, R., & Zaman, M. (2011). Benzodiazepine use among adults residing in the urban settlements of Karachi, Pakistan: A cross sectional study. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 6 (19) 

  15. Foong, A., Arthur, D., West, S., Kornhaber, R., McLean, L., Cleary, M. (2018) Editorial. The mental health plight of unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children in detention. Journal of Advanced Nursing; 1–3. 

  16. Arthur, D. & Dizon D., Jooste, K., Yao, Xiuyu (December 2017). Mindfulness in nursing students: The five facet mindfulness questionnaire in samples of nursing students in China, the Philippines, and South Africa.International journal of mental health nursing, DOI, 0.1111/inm.12405.​ 

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Contact

Ambreen Tharani

Stream Lead
ambreen.tharani@aku.edu​
(021) 3486 5360 ​​

Faraz Ahmed

Stream Coordinator
faraz.ahmed@aku.edu​
(021) 3486 5437 ​