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BMC Psychiatry BioMedCentral Research article Open Access Psychiatric rating scales in Urdu: a systematic review Syed Ahmer*1, Rafey A Faruqui2 and Anita Aijaz1 Address: 1Department of Psychiatry, The Aga Khan University, Stadium road, Karachi-74800, Pakistan and 2National Centre for Brain Injury Rehabilitation, St. Andrews Hospital, Northampton NN1 5DG UK Email: Syed Ahmer* - syed.ahmer@; Rafey A Faruqui - rafeyahmad@; Anita Aijaz - anita.aijaz@ * Corresponding author Published: 26 October 2007 Received: 31 July 2007 Accepted: 26 October 2007 BMC Psychiatry 2007, 7:59 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-7-59 This article is available from: /1471-244X/7/59 ? 2007 Ahmer et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Researchers setting out to conduct research employing questionnaires in non- English speaking populations need instruments that have been validated in the indigenous languages. In this study we have tried to review the literature on the status of cross-cultural and/or criterion validity of all the questionnaires measuring psychiatric symptoms available in Urdu language. Methods: A search of Medline, Embase, PsycINFO and was conducted using the search terms; Urdu psychiatric rating scale, and Urdu and Psychiatry. References of retrieved articles were searched. Only studies describing either cross-cultural or criterion validation of a questionnaire in Urdu measuring psychiatric symptoms were included. Results: Thirty two studies describing validation of 19 questionnaires were identified. Six of these questionnaires were developed indigenously in Urdu while thirteen had been translated from English. Of the six indigenous questionnaires five