The K-10 is a ten-item measure of general psychological distress
with total scores ≥22 associatedwith a diagnosis of anxiety and depressive
disorders (Andrews and Slade, 2001). The Arabic translation of the
K10 has been extensively used in WHO World Mental Health Surveys
(Kessler et al., 2002) and has been validated for some Arab populations
(Fassaert et al., 2009). In the present sample, Cronbach's alphawas high