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Prevalence of stress and its determinants among residents in Saudi Arabia

Fahad D. Alosaimi, Sana N. Kazim, Auroabah S. Almufleh, Bandar S. Aladwani and Abdullah S. Alsubaie
Saudi Medical Journal May 2015, 36 (5) 605-612; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.5.10814
Fahad D. Alosaimi
From the Department of Psychiatry (Alosaimi, Alsubaie), King Saud University, Department of Psychiatry (Kazim, Almufleh), Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, and the Department of Psychiatry (Aladwani), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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From the Department of Psychiatry (Alosaimi, Alsubaie), King Saud University, Department of Psychiatry (Kazim, Almufleh), Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, and the Department of Psychiatry (Aladwani), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Auroabah S. Almufleh
From the Department of Psychiatry (Alosaimi, Alsubaie), King Saud University, Department of Psychiatry (Kazim, Almufleh), Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, and the Department of Psychiatry (Aladwani), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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From the Department of Psychiatry (Alosaimi, Alsubaie), King Saud University, Department of Psychiatry (Kazim, Almufleh), Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, and the Department of Psychiatry (Aladwani), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 36 no. 5 605-612
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.5.10814
PubMed 
25935183

Published By 
Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received November 19, 2014
  • Accepted March 9, 2015
  • Published online May 1, 2015.

Copyright & Usage 
Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Fahad D. Alosaimi, MD⇑,
  2. Sana N. Kazim, MD,
  3. Auroabah S. Almufleh, MD,
  4. Bandar S. Aladwani, MD and
  5. Abdullah S. Alsubaie, MD
  1. From the Department of Psychiatry (Alosaimi, Alsubaie), King Saud University, Department of Psychiatry (Kazim, Almufleh), Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, and the Department of Psychiatry (Aladwani), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Fahad D. Alosaimi, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, King Khalid University Hospital, PO Box 7805, Riyadh 11472, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: dr.fahad.alosaimi{at}gmail.com
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