QU Public Health Department students present graduation projects

A total of 11 students from the Public Health Department of the College of Health Science, a member of QU Health at Qatar University, recently presented their research graduation projects.

Most of the students will graduate in Spring-2021 which is the sixth cohort of Public Health Bachelor’s degree graduates.Keram Rimah and Reham Zamel presented their research project titled ‘Knowledge, attitude and practices about breast cancer self-examination among health cluster students in Qatar University’ which was supervised by Dr Ahsan Sethi.Dr Ghadir Aljayyousi supervised the project of Retaj Awad and Maha AlQashoti, which was a systematic review about tobacco cessation programmes and factors associated with their effectiveness in the Middle East.Another project was supervised by Dr Mohamed Fasih Alam which was presented by Dana al-Sulaiti, and Fatima Alhabshi, who were interested in exploring newborn hearing loss screening through a systematic review.Dr Alam also supervised the project entitled ‘Colorectal cancer screening and its impact on incidence and mortality: a systematic review’. The project was presented by Ayah El Sakka and Alanood al-Marri.Finally, Raghad Saeed, Usra El Shaikh and Rayan Sheikh investigated the barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking behaviours among older adults through a systematic review of quantitative studies.This project was supervised by Dr Diana Alsayed Hassan.