Assistant Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Biography
Dr. Mneimneh is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Survey Methodology Program within the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan. She is also an affiliated Assistant Research Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. Mneimneh is the director of the World Mental Health Data Collection Coordinating Center that supports the design and implementation of national mental health surveys in more than 35 countries. She is also the chair of the executive committee for the International Comparative Survey Design Initiative, an annual workshop that provides a forum for international researchers involved in research relevant to comparative survey methods. Mneimneh has published more than 35 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. Her research investigates factors affecting the reporting of sensitive information including interviewer, respondent, and question characteristics, and contextual factors related to the interview setting. Her recent work examines the use of paradata to monitor interviewer behavior and the use of social media data for social science research.
Projects
Improving Survey Quality in Qatar: Evaluating Interviewers’ Role in Establishing Privacy & Its Effect on Survey Response
Michigan Institute for Data Science Challenge Thrust: A Social Science Collaboration for Research on Communication and Learning based upon Big Data
World Mental Health Survey Initiative
Funded Research
Publications
- Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Elliott, Michael R.; Tourangeau, Roger and Heeringa, Steven G. (2018). Cultural and Interviewer Effects on Interview Privacy: Individualism and National Wealth. Cross-Cultural Research.
- Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Hibben, Kristen Cibelli; Bilal, Lisa; Hyder, Sanaa; Shahab, Mona; Binmuammar, Abdulrahman and Altwaijri, Yasmin (2018). Probing for Sensitivity in Translated Survey Questions: Differences in Respondent Feedback Across Cognitive Probe Types. Translation & Interpreting.
- Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Lyberg, Lars; Sharma, Sharan; Vyas, Mahesh; Sathe, Dhananjay Bal; Malter, Frederic and Altwaijri, Yasmin (2018). Case Studies on Monitoring Interviewer Behavior in International and Multinational Surveys. Advances in Comparative Survey Methods, 731-770. In Johnson,Timothy P.; Pennell,Beth-Ellen; Stoop,Ineke A. L. and Dorer,Brita (Ed.), Advances in Comparative Survey Methods: Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts (3MC). John Wiley & Sons:Hoboken, NJ.
- Shahab, Mona; Al-Tuwaijri, Feda; Bilal, Lisa; Hyder, Sanaa; Al-Habeeb, Abdulhameed; Al-Subaie, Abdullah; Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Pennell, Beth-Ellen; Sampson, Nancy; Kessler, Ronald C. and Altwaijri, Yasmin (2017). The Saudi National Mental Health Survey: Methodological and Logistical Challenges from the Pilot Study. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 26(3), e1565.
- Karam, Georges; Itani, Lynn; Fayyad, John; Karam, Aimee; Mneimneh, Zeina N. and Karam, Elie (2016). Prevalence, Correlates, and Treatment of Mental Disorders among Lebanese Older Adults: A National Study. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 24(4), 278-286.
- Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Pennell, Beth-Ellen; Kelley, Jennifer and Hibben, Kristen C. (2016). Surveys in Societies in Turmoil. 178-189. In Wolf,Christof; Joye,Dominique; Smith,Tom E. C.; Smith,Tom W. and Fu,Yang-chih (Ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Survey Methodology. Sage:Thousand Oaks, CA.
- Karam, Elie G.; Itani, Lynn; Fayyad, John; Hantouche, Elie; Karam, Aimee; Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Akiskal, Hagop and Rihmer, Zoltán (2015). Temperament and Suicide: A National Study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 184, 123-128.
- Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Couper, Mick P.; Pennell, Beth-Ellen; Tourangeau, Roger; Heeringa, Steven G. and Elliott, Michael R. (2015). Cultural Variations in the Effect of Interview Privacy and the Need for Social Conformity on Reporting Sensitive Information. Journal of Official Statistics, 31(4), 673-697.
- Karam, E. G.; Fayyad, J.; Karam, A. N.; Melhem, N.; Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Dimassi, H. and Tabet, C. C. (2014). Outcome of Depression and Anxiety After War: A Prospective Epidemiologic Study of Children and Adolescents. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 27(2), 192-199.
- Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Heeringa, Steven G.; Tourangeau, Roger and Elliott, Michael R. (2014). Bridging Psychometrics and Survey Methodology: Can Mixed Rasch Models Identify Socially Desirable Reporting Behavior?. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 2(3), 257-282.
- Andrade, L. H.; Alonso, J.; Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Wells, J. E.; Al-Hamzawi, A.; Borges, G.; Bromet, E.; Bruffaerts, R.; de Girolamo, G.; de Graaf, R.; Florescu, S.; Gureje, O.; Hinkov, H. R.; Hu, C.; Huang, Y.; Hwang, I.; Jin, R.; Karam, E. G.; Kovess-Masfety, V.; Levinson, D. (2014). Barriers to Mental Health Treatment: Results from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. Psychological Medicine, 44(6), 1303-1317.
- Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Axinn, William G.; Ghimire, Dirgha J.; Cibelli, K. and Al-Kaisy, M. (2014). Conducting Surveys in Areas of Armed Conflict. 134-156. In Tourangeau,Roger; Edwards,Brad; Johnson,Timothy P.; Wolter,Kirk M. and Bates,Nancy (Ed.), Hard-to-Survey Populations. Cambridge University Press:United Kingdom.
- Karam, E. G.; Salamoun, M. M.; Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Fayyad, J. A.; Karam, A. N.; Hajjar, R.; Dimassi, H.; Nock, M. K. and Kessler, R. C. (2012). War and First Onset of Suicidality: The Role of Mental Disorders. Psychological Medicine, 42(10), 2109-2118.
- Stein, D. J.; Chiu, W. T.; Hwang, I.; Kessler, R. C.; Sampson, N.; Alonso, J.; Borges, G.; Bromet, E.; Bruffaerts, R.; de Girolamo, G.; Florescu, S.; Gureje, O.; He, Y.; Kovess-Masfety, V.; Levinson, D.; Matschinger, H.; Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Nakamura, Y.; Ormel, J.; Posada-V (2010). Cross-National Analysis of the Associations between Traumatic Events and Suicidal Behavior: Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. PloS One, 5(5), e10574.
- Karam, E. G.; Salamoun, M. M.; Yeretzian, J. S.; Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Karam, A. N.; Fayyad, J.; Hantouche, E.; Akiskal, K. and Akiskal, H. S. (2010). The Role of Anxious and Hyperthymic Temperaments in Mental Disorders: A National Epidemiologic Study. World Psychiatry : Official Journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 9(2), 103-110.
- Kessler, R. C.; Green, J. G.; Gruber, M. J.; Sampson, N. A.; Bromet, E.; Cuitan, M.; Furukawa, T. A.; Gureje, O.; Hinkov, H.; Hu, C. Y.; Lara, C.; Lee, S.; Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Myer, L.; Oakley-Browne, M.; Posada-Villa, J.; Sagar, R.; Viana, M. C. and Zaslavsky, A. M. (2010). Screening for Serious Mental Illness in the General Population with the K6 Screening Scale: Results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 19(S1), 4-22.
- Tanios, C. Y.; Abou-Saleh, M. T.; Karam, A. N.; Salamoun, M. M.; Mneimneh, Zeina N. and Karam, E. G. (2009). The Epidemiology of Anxiety Disorders in the Arab World: A Review. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23(4), 409-419.
- Karam, E. G.; Tabet, C. C.; Alam, D.; Shamseddeen, W.; Chatila, Y.; Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Salamoun, M. M. and Hamalian, M. (2009). Bereavement Related and Non-Bereavement Related Depressions: A Comparative Field Study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 112(1-3), 102-110.
- Farah, L. G.; Fayyad, J. A.; Eapen, V.; Cassir, Y.; Salamoun, M. M.; Tabet, C. C.; Mneimneh, Zeina N. and Karam, E. G. (2009). ADHD in the Arab World: A Review of Epidemiologic Studies. Journal of Attention Disorders, 13(3), 211-222.
- Karam, E. G.; Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Dimassi, H.; Fayyad, J. A.; Karam, A. N.; Nasser, S. C.; Chatterji, S. and Kessler, R. C. (2008). Lifetime Prevalence of Mental Disorders in Lebanon: First Onset, Treatment, and Exposure to War. PLoS Medicine, 5(4), e61.
- Karam, E. G.; Fayyad, J.; Nasser Karam, A.; Cordahi Tabet, C.; Melhem, N.; Mneimneh, Zeina N. and Dimassi, H. (2008). Effectiveness and Specificity of a Classroom-Based Group Intervention in Children and Adolescents Exposed to War in Lebanon. World Psychiatry : Official Journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 7(2), 103-109.
- Scott, K. M.; Von Korff, M.; Alonso, J.; Angermeyer, M.; Bromet, E. J.; Bruffaerts, R.; de Girolamo, G.; de Graaf, R.; Fernandez, A.; Gureje, O.; He, Y.; Kessler, R. C.; Kovess, V.; Levinson, D.; Medina-Mora, M. E.; Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Oakley Browne, M. A.; Posada-Villa, J (2008). Age Patterns in the Prevalence of DSM-IV depressive/anxiety Disorders with and without Physical Co-Morbidity. Psychological Medicine, 38(11), 1659-1669.
- Pennell, Beth-Ellen; Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Bowers, Ashley; Chardoul, Stephanie; Wells, J. E.; Viana, M. C.; Dinkelmann, Karl; Gebler, Nancy; Flourscu, S.; He, Y.; Huang, Y.; Tomov, T. and Vilagut, G. (2008). Implementation of the World Mental Health Surveys. In Kessler,Ronald C. and Ustan,T. B. (Ed.), The WHO World Mental Health Surveys : Global Perspectives on the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders. Cambridge University Press Published in collaboration with the World Health Organization:Cambridge New York Geneva.
- Heeringa, Steven G.; Wells, J. E.; Hubbard, Frost; Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Chiu, W. T.; Sampson, N. and Berglund, Patricia A. (2008). Sample Designs and Sampling Procedures for the WHO World Mental Health Initiative Surveys. In Kessler,Ronald C. and Ustün,T. B. (Ed.), The WHO World Mental Health Surveys : Global Perspectives on the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders. Cambridge University Press:Cambridge ; New York; Geneva.
- He, Y.; Zhang, M.; Lin, E. H.; Bruffaerts, R.; Posada-Villa, J.; Angermeyer, M. C.; Levinson, D.; de Girolamo, G.; Uda, H.; Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Benjet, C.; de Graaf, R.; Scott, K. M.; Gureje, O.; Seedat, S.; Haro, J. M.; Bromet, E. J.; Alonso, J.; von Korff, M. and Kessler, (2008). Mental Disorders among Persons with Arthritis: Results from the World Mental Health Surveys. Psychological Medicine, 38(11), 1639-1650.
- Alonso, J.; Buron, A.; Bruffaerts, R.; He, Y.; Posada-Villa, J.; Lepine, J. P.; Angermeyer, M. C.; Levinson, D.; de Girolamo, G.; Tachimori, H.; Mneimneh, Zeina N.; Medina-Mora, M. E.; Ormel, J.; Scott, K. M.; Gureje, O.; Haro, J. M.; Gluzman, S.; Lee, S.; Vilagut, G.; Kess (2008). Association of Perceived Stigma and Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Results from the World Mental Health Surveys. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 118(4), 305-314.