The Arabic self-reporting questionnaire (SRQ) as a psychiatric screening instrument in medical patients.

Background: The self-reporting questionnaire was originally developed by the WHO in order to screen for psychiatic disorders. To assess the validity of the Arabic self-reporting questionnaire (SRQ) as a screening instrument for psychiatric morbidity in a sample of Saudi medical patients.

Methods: All patients referred for endoscopy underwent a semi-structured interview, and were then asked to fill out the SRQ.

The knowledge and practices of oral hygiene methods and attendance pattern among school teachers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Objective: The aim of this study was to find out the knowledge and practices of oral hygiene methods among primary and secondary school teachers in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

Methods: The study was carried out using a self-administered questionnaire. Four hundred and seventy teachers, male 236 (50.