A retrospective analysis of substance use among female psychiatric patients in Saudi Arabia.

Objective: This study investigated the prevalence of substance use (SU), and its risk factors, among women attending psychiatric outpatients center in Saudi Arabia.

Design: A retrospective cross-sectional design.

Materials And Methods: We reviewed outpatients' records of 200 female patients with a history of SU from a psychiatric unit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from December 2018 to February 2019.