Abstract
Most people experience feelings of anxiety or depression at times. Grief, loss of a job, divorce, illness, and other stressors can lead to feelings of sadness, worry, frustration, and loneliness. These are normal reactions to difficult life situations. Some people experience these feelings daily, without a known stressor. This can interfere with the ability to carry out every day activities such as getting to work on time, proper self-care, or caring for children. In this case, people might be suffering from depression, anxiety, or a combination of the two. This descriptive cross sectional study was conducted at Hail city of Saudi Arabia to measure prevalence of depression and anxiety among adults, data was collected by using standardized of PHQ-9 questionnaire and collected data was analyzed by using SPSS ver. 23. About 323 adults of age 20 up to 60 years old were participated in this study, This study found that majority of participants were female (76%) and about 93% of participants within the age group from 20 to 50 years old. It revealed that the prevalence of anxiety among participants was 62%, where 42% had mild symptoms, 12% had moderate symptoms while 7% had severe symptoms while the prevalence of depression symptoms among participants was 67 %, where 38% had minimal symptoms, 20% had minor symptoms, 5% had moderately severe symptoms and 5% had had severe symptoms. Finally this study indicated that there were statistically significant different between gender and depression symptoms, p value < 0.05