Academic and non-academic life stressors and their impact on psychological wellbeing of medical students.

Objectives: Among medical students, depression, anxiety, and stress (DAS) are key public wellbeing challenges that require epidemiological research. We aimed to evaluate potential sources of these psychological disturbances and assess the contribution of academic and non-academic life stressors in psychological morbidity among medical students.

Methods: This exploratory questionnaire-based survey was conducted in a Saudi Arabian public sector medical college.

Job satisfaction among Saudi healthcare workers and its impact on the quality of health services.

Background: Job satisfaction among health care workers is crucial and considered as an essential parameter that affects their productivity and work's quality.

Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted among health care workers in Saudi, males and females, to assess the impact of job satisfaction on health service quality. A random sampling technique was applied to select the participants.

Depression and Anxiety Among Medical Students: A Brief Overview.

Depression and anxiety are highly prevalent conditions worldwide. This article reviews the extent of depression and anxiety among medical students and elucidates associated potential risk factors. In comparison to other countries, students from Middle East countries have a higher prevalence of depression.

Depression, anxiety and stress among medical and non-medical students in Saudi Arabia: An epidemiological comparative cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To quantify the extent and variation of depression, anxiety and stress among medical and non-medical Saudi Arabian students.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, students from Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, were recruited. The Faculty of Education was randomly selected to represent the non-medical colleges.

Job satisfaction amongst surgical healthcare professionals during Hajj and Non-Hajj periods: An analytical multi-center cross-sectional study in the holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

Objective: To assess the job satisfaction of surgical healthcare professionals working during Hajj, and to determine the potential predictors of overall job satisfaction in Hajj and non-Hajj periods.

Methods: A multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted at King Abdullah Medical City, King Faisal Hospital and Al-Noor Specialist Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, from August 27 to September 5, 2018, which represented the period of 10 days following the Hajj season in that year. All surgeons who were employed during Hajj were interviewed regarding their job satisfaction in-Hajj versus non-Hajj periods using the Warr-Cook-Wall job satisfaction scale.

First dinosaurs from Saudi Arabia.

Dinosaur remains from the Arabian subcontinent are exceedingly rare, and those that have been documented manifest indeterminate affinities. Consequently the discovery of a small, but diagnostic, accumulation of elements from Campanian-Maastrichtian (~ 75 Ma) deposits in northwestern Saudi Arabia is significant because it constitutes the first taxonomically identifiable dinosaur material described from the Arabian Peninsula. The fossils include a series of possible lithostrotian titanosaur caudal vertebrae, and some isolated theropod marginal teeth that share unique character states and metric parameters (analyzed using multivariate statistical methods) with derived abelisaurids - this is the first justifiable example of a non-avian carnivorous dinosaur clade from Arabia.