Background: No systematic review or meta-analysis has yet been performed to examine the global prevalence of nomophobia by population, by instrument. Thus, this review was performed to estimate the prevalence of nomophobia by severity. Methods: American Psychological Association PsycINFO, Cochrane, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), EBSCOhost, EMBASE, MEDLINE, ProQuest Medical, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and Web of Science from inception of each respective database to second week of January 2021 were used. There was no language restriction. The random-effect meta-analysis model was used with the DerSimonian and Laird methodology was used for computation. Results: Twenty papers, involving 12,462 participants from ten countries, were evaluated for meta-analysis. The prevalence of moderate to severe nomophobia is 70.76% [95% CI 62.62%; 77.75%]. The prevalence of severe nomophobia is 20.81% [95% CI 15.45%; 27.43%]. University students appeared to be the highest group affected with a prevalence of severe nomophobia 25.46% [95% CI 18.49%; 33.98%]. Meta-regressions of severe nomophobia showed that age and sex were not a successful predictor of severe nomophobia β = −0.9732, p = 0.2672 and β = −0.9732, p = 0.4986. Conclusions: The prevalence of severe nomophobia is approximately 21% in the general adult population. University students appeared to be the most impacted by the disorder.

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Background: Obesity is a chief communal health dilemma that considered an epidemic worldwide including Saudi Arabia, where the preferred method for weight loss is bariatric surgery. The presence of some misconceptions among some people in Saudi society may cause a decrease in the level of making the right decisions and the appropriate way to deal with their weight. Aim: The current study conducted to evaluate the awareness of the adult population in the Hail region as regards to the safety, usefulness, as well as the consequences of bariatric surgery as an option for weight loss. Methodology: A cross sectional web survey administered to include Saudi adults' population older than 15 years of their age in the Hail region, from January to August 2022. Results: A 400 participants from Hail, Saudi Arabia responded to the web survey. With respect to demography, 76% of participants were aged 15-30 years old. Most (61.5%) were male. A 56 (14%) of the participants had a medical history of obesity. Regarding participants' perceptions regarding obesity, factors that aid in weight reduction, and bariatric surgery, it was found that most participants had an intermediate level of awareness. Conclusion: It should shed light on the role of physicians and health educators in informing patients and providing them with the essential details to augment their knowledge and awareness regarding obesity, ways to lose weight and bariatric surgery.

Psoriasis is a multi-system, chronic, non-infectious, autoimmune, and inflammatory disorder that mainly affects the skin and has a multifactorial etiology. Nutrition has always been a very important line in the management of multiple diseases, whether dermatological or otherwise. Although it is more important in some diseases than others, nutrition could probably always play a role in augmenting and improving recovery. The advantages of optimizing nutrition and using it as a tool in the management of diseases are many, including cost, knowledge of long-term complications if present and less-to-no side effects compared to newly produced medications. Those nutrients are also likely to benefit one\'s overall health and not just the pressing condition. Thus, this review aimed at providing an overview of nutrients, such as vitamin D and omega-3 (n-3), and obesity in relation to psoriasis. Using standard search engines, the present study reviewed how vitamin D, n-3, and weight loss can help patients dealing with psoriasis. Evidently, vitamin D and n-3 were found beneficial for alleviating psoriatic symptoms, especially vitamin D, because of its steroid sparing effects. Weight loss in obese individuals with psoriasis was found not only in improving psoriatic lesions as reflected in Psoriasis Area and Severity Index but also it protected them against metabolic syndrome. It is important also to note that for patients with psoriasis to use these substances as they could prevent them from developing complications when using conventional medications such as steroids and help them in other areas such as psoriatic arthritis, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases.