The Health Indicators Surveillance System (HISS) is a short cross-sectional, face to face interviews conducted in all 13 administrative regions of Saudi Arabia on a monthly basis. HISS is a risk factors surveillance system following the World Health Organization (WHO) model of development of chronic diseases. It collects behavioral risk factors, intermediate risk factors, and chronic disease status. It started as a pilot between September – December 2019 in 5 administrative Saudi Regions on 4009 participants. Currently it has more than 14,000 records.

CHRS0622021

https://doi.org/10.60840/nhrsp-f207

The Health Indicators Surveillance System (HISS) is a short cross-sectional, face to face interviews conducted in all 13 administrative regions of Saudi Arabia on a monthly basis. It started as a pilot between September – December 2019 in 5 administrative Saudi Regions on 4009 participants. Each interview lasted approximately 4 minutes, conducted by a trained data collector. This study used the QPlatform® data collection system, which had integrated eligibility and sampling modules, to control the distribution of the sample. All questions had to be answered for the questionnaire to be successfully submitted to the database. All data were coded and stored on the QPlatform database.