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The effect of wet cupping on quality of life of adult patients with chronic medical conditions in King Abdulaziz University Hospital

Soad K. Al Jaouni, Eman A. El-Fiky, Samiha A. Mourad, Nahla Khamis Ibrahim, Abdullah M. Kaki, Sawsan M. Rohaiem, Mohamad H. Qari, Laila M. Tabsh and Adel A. Aljawhari
Saudi Medical Journal January 2017, 38 (1) 53-62; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.1.15154
Soad K. Al Jaouni
From the Department of Hematology (Al Jaouni, Qari), Department of Family & Community Medicine (Ibrahim), Department of Anesthesia (Kaki), Department of Physiology (Rohaiem), Department of Surgery (Aljawhari), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, and from the Yousef Abdul Latif Jameel Cupping Clinic (AL Jaouni, El-Fiky, Mourad, Rohaiem), Department of Nursing (Tabsh), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Epidemiology (Ibrahim), High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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Eman A. El-Fiky
From the Department of Hematology (Al Jaouni, Qari), Department of Family & Community Medicine (Ibrahim), Department of Anesthesia (Kaki), Department of Physiology (Rohaiem), Department of Surgery (Aljawhari), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, and from the Yousef Abdul Latif Jameel Cupping Clinic (AL Jaouni, El-Fiky, Mourad, Rohaiem), Department of Nursing (Tabsh), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Epidemiology (Ibrahim), High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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Samiha A. Mourad
From the Department of Hematology (Al Jaouni, Qari), Department of Family & Community Medicine (Ibrahim), Department of Anesthesia (Kaki), Department of Physiology (Rohaiem), Department of Surgery (Aljawhari), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, and from the Yousef Abdul Latif Jameel Cupping Clinic (AL Jaouni, El-Fiky, Mourad, Rohaiem), Department of Nursing (Tabsh), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Epidemiology (Ibrahim), High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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Nahla Khamis Ibrahim
From the Department of Hematology (Al Jaouni, Qari), Department of Family & Community Medicine (Ibrahim), Department of Anesthesia (Kaki), Department of Physiology (Rohaiem), Department of Surgery (Aljawhari), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, and from the Yousef Abdul Latif Jameel Cupping Clinic (AL Jaouni, El-Fiky, Mourad, Rohaiem), Department of Nursing (Tabsh), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Epidemiology (Ibrahim), High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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  • For correspondence: [email protected]
Abdullah M. Kaki
From the Department of Hematology (Al Jaouni, Qari), Department of Family & Community Medicine (Ibrahim), Department of Anesthesia (Kaki), Department of Physiology (Rohaiem), Department of Surgery (Aljawhari), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, and from the Yousef Abdul Latif Jameel Cupping Clinic (AL Jaouni, El-Fiky, Mourad, Rohaiem), Department of Nursing (Tabsh), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Epidemiology (Ibrahim), High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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Sawsan M. Rohaiem
From the Department of Hematology (Al Jaouni, Qari), Department of Family & Community Medicine (Ibrahim), Department of Anesthesia (Kaki), Department of Physiology (Rohaiem), Department of Surgery (Aljawhari), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, and from the Yousef Abdul Latif Jameel Cupping Clinic (AL Jaouni, El-Fiky, Mourad, Rohaiem), Department of Nursing (Tabsh), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Epidemiology (Ibrahim), High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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Mohamad H. Qari
From the Department of Hematology (Al Jaouni, Qari), Department of Family & Community Medicine (Ibrahim), Department of Anesthesia (Kaki), Department of Physiology (Rohaiem), Department of Surgery (Aljawhari), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, and from the Yousef Abdul Latif Jameel Cupping Clinic (AL Jaouni, El-Fiky, Mourad, Rohaiem), Department of Nursing (Tabsh), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Epidemiology (Ibrahim), High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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Laila M. Tabsh
From the Department of Hematology (Al Jaouni, Qari), Department of Family & Community Medicine (Ibrahim), Department of Anesthesia (Kaki), Department of Physiology (Rohaiem), Department of Surgery (Aljawhari), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, and from the Yousef Abdul Latif Jameel Cupping Clinic (AL Jaouni, El-Fiky, Mourad, Rohaiem), Department of Nursing (Tabsh), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Epidemiology (Ibrahim), High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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Adel A. Aljawhari
From the Department of Hematology (Al Jaouni, Qari), Department of Family & Community Medicine (Ibrahim), Department of Anesthesia (Kaki), Department of Physiology (Rohaiem), Department of Surgery (Aljawhari), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, and from the Yousef Abdul Latif Jameel Cupping Clinic (AL Jaouni, El-Fiky, Mourad, Rohaiem), Department of Nursing (Tabsh), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Epidemiology (Ibrahim), High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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vol. 38 no. 1 53-62
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.1.15154
PubMed 
28042631

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received August 16, 2016
  • Accepted October 26, 2016
  • Published online January 1, 2017.

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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. Soad K. Al Jaouni, MD, FRCPC,
  2. Eman A. El-Fiky, MD, MSc,
  3. Samiha A. Mourad, MBDCH, MBBCh,
  4. Nahla Khamis Ibrahim, PhD, MPH (Epidemiology)⇑,
  5. Abdullah M. Kaki, MD, FRCPC,
  6. Sawsan M. Rohaiem, PhD, MSc,
  7. Mohamad H. Qari, FRCPA, MBBCh,
  8. Laila M. Tabsh, MPH, DHA and
  9. Adel A. Aljawhari, SBGS, MBBCH
  1. From the Department of Hematology (Al Jaouni, Qari), Department of Family & Community Medicine (Ibrahim), Department of Anesthesia (Kaki), Department of Physiology (Rohaiem), Department of Surgery (Aljawhari), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, and from the Yousef Abdul Latif Jameel Cupping Clinic (AL Jaouni, El-Fiky, Mourad, Rohaiem), Department of Nursing (Tabsh), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Epidemiology (Ibrahim), High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Prof. Nahla Khamis Ibrahim, Department of Family & Community Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: nahlakhamis{at}yahoo.com ORCID : http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5834-6862
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