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BMC Psychiatry BioMed Central Research article Open Access Psychiatric rating scales in Urdu: a systematic review 1 2 1 Syed Ahmer* , Rafey A Faruqui and Anita Aijaz 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, Psyc