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Smartphone addiction among university students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Fahad D. Alosaimi, Haifa Alyahya, Hatem Alshahwan, Nawal Al Mahyijari and Shaffi A. Shaik
Saudi Medical Journal June 2016, 37 (6) 675-683; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.6.14430
Fahad D. Alosaimi
From the SABIC Psychological Health Research & Applications Chair, Department of Psychiatry (Alosaimi), College of Medicine, King Saud University, the National Guard Health Affairs (Alyahya), Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (Alshahwan), Family and Community Department (Shaik), King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Ministry of Health (Al Mahyijari), Al Masara Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
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Haifa Alyahya
From the SABIC Psychological Health Research & Applications Chair, Department of Psychiatry (Alosaimi), College of Medicine, King Saud University, the National Guard Health Affairs (Alyahya), Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (Alshahwan), Family and Community Department (Shaik), King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Ministry of Health (Al Mahyijari), Al Masara Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
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Hatem Alshahwan
From the SABIC Psychological Health Research & Applications Chair, Department of Psychiatry (Alosaimi), College of Medicine, King Saud University, the National Guard Health Affairs (Alyahya), Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (Alshahwan), Family and Community Department (Shaik), King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Ministry of Health (Al Mahyijari), Al Masara Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
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Nawal Al Mahyijari
From the SABIC Psychological Health Research & Applications Chair, Department of Psychiatry (Alosaimi), College of Medicine, King Saud University, the National Guard Health Affairs (Alyahya), Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (Alshahwan), Family and Community Department (Shaik), King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Ministry of Health (Al Mahyijari), Al Masara Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
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Shaffi A. Shaik
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Article Information

vol. 37 no. 6 675-683
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.6.14430
PubMed 
27279515

Published By 
Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received February 15, 2016
  • Accepted April 6, 2016
  • Published online June 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. Fahad D. Alosaimi, MD⇑,
  2. Haifa Alyahya, MD,
  3. Hatem Alshahwan, MD,
  4. Nawal Al Mahyijari, MD and
  5. Shaffi A. Shaik, MD
  1. From the SABIC Psychological Health Research & Applications Chair, Department of Psychiatry (Alosaimi), College of Medicine, King Saud University, the National Guard Health Affairs (Alyahya), Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (Alshahwan), Family and Community Department (Shaik), King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Ministry of Health (Al Mahyijari), Al Masara Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Fahad D. Alosaimi, SABIC Psychological Health Research & Applications Chair, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: dr.fahad.alosaimi{at}gmail.com
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