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medication adherence essential optimal treatment outcomes patients chronic diseases medication nonadherence compromises patient clinical outcomes patient safety well leading increase unnecessary direct indirect medical costs therefore early identification nonadherence healthcare professionals using medication adherence scales help preventing poor clinical outcomes among patients chronic health conditions diabetes hypertension unfortunately validated medication adherence assessment scales arabic thus aim study validate newly translated arabic version selfefficacy appropriate medication use scale seams among patients chronic diseases singlecenter crosssectional study conducted march 2019 march 2021 primary care clinics king saud university medical city ksumc riyadh saudi arabia english version seams translated arabic using forwardbackward method piloted among 22 adults 18 yrs chronic diseases reliability newly translated scale examined using testretest cronbachs alpha methods exploratory confirmatory factor analyses conducted examine construct validity arabic version seams number patients consented participate filled questionnaire 202 participants males 699 aged 50 years 652 diabetes 9653 13item arabictranslated seams mean score 3237 531 scale showed acceptable internal consistency cronbachs alpha 0886 reliability intraclass correlation coefficient 098 total variance 13item arabicseams could explained two factors confirmed factor analysis arabic version seams help detecting poor selfefficacy medication adherence among arabicspeaking patient populations chronic diseases diabetes hypertension future studies examine validity among diverse patient populations different arabicspeaking countries