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Prevalence of intimate partner violence and its associated risk factors among Saudi female patients attending the primary healthcare centers in Western Saudi Arabia

Turki A. Alzahrani, Bahaa A. Abaalkhail and Iman K. Ramadan
Saudi Medical Journal January 2016, 37 (1) 96-99; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.1.13135
Turki A. Alzahrani
From the Department of Family Medicine (Alzahrani), Al-Hada Armed Forces Hospital, Taif, the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Abaalkhail, Ramadan), Medical College and Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MBBS, MPH
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Bahaa A. Abaalkhail
From the Department of Family Medicine (Alzahrani), Al-Hada Armed Forces Hospital, Taif, the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Abaalkhail, Ramadan), Medical College and Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Iman K. Ramadan
From the Department of Family Medicine (Alzahrani), Al-Hada Armed Forces Hospital, Taif, the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Abaalkhail, Ramadan), Medical College and Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 37 no. 1 96-99
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.1.13135
PubMed 
26739983

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received August 3, 2015
  • Accepted November 19, 2015
  • Published online January 1, 2016.

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. Turki A. Alzahrani, MBBS, MPH,
  2. Bahaa A. Abaalkhail, MBBS, PhD⇑ and
  3. Iman K. Ramadan, MBBS, PhD
  1. From the Department of Family Medicine (Alzahrani), Al-Hada Armed Forces Hospital, Taif, the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Abaalkhail, Ramadan), Medical College and Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and re-prints request to: Dr. Bahaa A. Abaalkhail, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: abalkhail60{at}hotmail.com / babalkhail{at}kau.edu.sa
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