Abumadini Mahdi S
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Imam Abdul Rahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
J Family Community Med. 2019 Sep-Dec;26(3):163-167. doi: 10.4103/jfcm.JFCM_215_18.
In the last few decades, there has been significant advancement in higher education and research in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) However, no research has quantified the studies on mental health in Saudi Arabia. The aim of this review was to review literature on mental health in KSA over the last four decades and compare it with studies done in other medical and surgical specialties. This narrative review is based on research published in the global scientific database of Web of Science, Scopus and Medline/PubMed. Mental Health Research of Saudi Arabia published since 1975 was retrieved. Publications related to other medical specialties such as surgery, internal medicine and pharmacology were also retrieved for comparison. A total of 159,796 studies related to medical and non-medical specialties were conducted in Saudi Arabia. A total of 52,699 related to medical specialties, 670 of which were on mental health and 52,029 on other medical specialties. At the beginning of the last decade there was a sharp increase in medical research (including mental health) publications from Saudi Arabia. Mental health research does not differ from research in other medical specialties in its output. In spite of the huge strides made in research in KSA, the provision of support for mental health research in the Kingdom is inadequate. Possible challenges and recommendations have been identified.
在过去几十年里，沙特阿拉伯王国的高等教育和研究取得了显著进展。然而，尚无研究对沙特阿拉伯的心理健康研究进行量化。本综述的目的是回顾过去四十年来沙特阿拉伯心理健康方面的文献，并将其与其他医学和外科专业的研究进行比较。本叙述性综述基于发表在科学网、Scopus和Medline/PubMed等全球科学数据库中的研究。检索了自1975年以来发表的沙特阿拉伯心理健康研究。还检索了与其他医学专业（如外科、内科和药理学）相关的出版物以作比较。沙特阿拉伯共开展了159,796项与医学和非医学专业相关的研究。其中与医学专业相关的有52,699项，其中670项是关于心理健康的，52,029项是关于其他医学专业的。在上个十年初，沙特阿拉伯的医学研究（包括心理健康研究）出版物数量急剧增加。心理健康研究在产出方面与其他医学专业的研究没有差异。尽管沙特阿拉伯在研究方面取得了巨大进展，但该国对心理健康研究的支持仍然不足。已确定了可能面临的挑战并提出了建议。
