1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (Correspondence to O.E. El-Rufaie: [email protected]). Received: 05/06/03; accepted: 07/04/04 ABSTRACT There is substantive evidence of significant psychiatric morbidity among primary care patients, mainly in the form of anxiety and depress...