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public education efforts address reduce potential harms cannabis use arab countries either slow inexistent follow steadily increasing trends cannabis use arab youth several decades research substance use suggested aware knowing psychosis risk related cannabis least limit consumption substance motivated lack measures specifically designed measure literacy cannabisrelated psychosis risk younger populations based extensive literature review aimed create validate new selfreport scale assess construct cannabisrelated psychosis risk literacy scale cprl arabic language crosssectional study carriedout period september 2022 june 2023 enrolling 1855 university students mean age 2326 496 756 females three arab countries egypt kuwait tunisia starting initial pool 20 items exploratory factor analysis confirmatory factor analysis suggested remaining 8 items loaded single factor scale demonstrated good internal consistency mcdonald omega cronbachs alpha values exceeding 07 omega 085 alpha 085 cprl showed measurement invariance across gender country configural metric scalar levels concurrent validity cprl established correlations less favourable attitudes towards cannabis r 14 p 001 addition higher literacy levels found students never used cannabis compared lifetime users 418 155 vs 344 120 t1853 8152 p 001 newly developed cprl scale offers valid reliable instrument assessing better understanding literacy cannabisrelated psychosis risk among arabicspeaking young adults believe new scale suitable screening tool literacy instrument measuring effect public education interventions aimed promoting cannabisrelated psychosis risk literacy among young people research tool facilitate future studies topic wider application