Objective: The objective of this study was to validate an Arabic version of the General Health
Questionnaire (GHQ-28) in a primary care setting in Saudi Arabia. Methodology: A total of …

Reviews sociocultural and Islamic religious aspects of mental disorders and psychiatry in
Saudi Arabia. The most common diagnoses for mental disorders in Saudi Arabia are: wishrah, …

DISCUSSION Even though possession is a primitive theory of illness, many communities still
hold this belief, particularly in Arabian countries. As is the case in both patients in this report…

A report of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome in a 16-year-old male and a 20-year-old female
from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, illustrating difficulties in diagnosis, comorbidity and …

OBJECTIVE: To show prospectively the impact of establishing a consultation-liaison (C/L)
psychiatry model on the consultation clinical indices. METHODS: A structured, organized …

Clinical features of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) were found to be similar in various
cultures. However, there was no report about phenomenology of this disorder from Moslem …

OBJECTIVE: To assess and compare, prospectively, schizophrenia relapse in relation to
neuroleptic medication in long term maintenance therapy. METHODS: All schizophrenic …

I would like to thank Prof. Adelola Adeloye for his interesting and positive remarks and I found
his article focusing on the neuropsychiatric etiology of TS rather than its treatment. Over …

A prospective study based on! ve years' experience of the! rst psychiatric day hospital in
Saudi Arabia. Method: All patients engaged in treatment were assessed at six weeks intervals …

Background: Acute appendicitis is the most common abdominal surgical emergency in
adults as well as children. Due to the peculiar anatomy of the appendix in children and the …