1 INTRODUCTION The prevalence of depressive disorders in Arabic-speaking countries (including: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen—all countries mentioned belong to the MENA region, with the exception of the Comoros) increased from 1990 to 2019 (Moradinazar et al., 2022) and current prevalence rates for most...