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Depression and anxiety among hypertensive and diabetic primary health care patients

Could patients’ perception of their diseases control be used as a screening tool?

Abdullah D. AlKhathami, Mohamed A. Alamin, Areej M. Alqahtani, Wafaa Y. Alsaeed, Mohammed A. AlKhathami and Abdulazeez H. Al-Dhafeeri
Saudi Medical Journal June 2017, 38 (6) 621-628; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.6.17941
Abdullah D. AlKhathami
From Saudi Post Graduate Family Medicine Program (AlKhathami, Alamin, Alqahtani), Ministry of Health, AlKhobar Health Centers Administration (Alsaeed), Ministry of Health (AlKhathami, Al-Dhafeeri), Eastern Province, AlKhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mohamed A. Alamin
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vol. 38 no. 6 621-628
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.6.17941
PubMed 
28578442

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received December 5, 2016
  • Accepted March 15, 2017
  • Published online June 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.

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  1. Abdullah D. AlKhathami, FFCM, ABFM,
  2. Mohamed A. Alamin, GH-MPH, MD⇑,
  3. Areej M. Alqahtani, SBFM, ABFM,
  4. Wafaa Y. Alsaeed, MBBS, FFCM,
  5. Mohammed A. AlKhathami, MBBS and
  6. Abdulazeez H. Al-Dhafeeri, MBBS
  1. From Saudi Post Graduate Family Medicine Program (AlKhathami, Alamin, Alqahtani), Ministry of Health, AlKhobar Health Centers Administration (Alsaeed), Ministry of Health (AlKhathami, Al-Dhafeeri), Eastern Province, AlKhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Mohamed A. Alamin, Saudi Post Graduate Family Medicine Program, Ministry of Health, Eastern AlKhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: mohamedali.alamin{at}gmail.com ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9850-4113
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