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Prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and comorbid psychiatric and behavioral problems among primary school students in western Saudi Arabia

Faten N. AlZaben, Mohammad G. Sehlo, Waleed A. Alghamdi, Haythum O. Tayeb, Doaa A. Khalifa, Abdulrahman T. Mira, Abdulaziz M. Alshuaibi, Mosab A. Alguthmi, Ahmad A. Derham and Harold G. Koenig
Saudi Medical Journal January 2018, 39 (1) 52-58; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.1.21288
Faten N. AlZaben
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Mohammad G. Sehlo
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vol. 39 no. 1 52-58
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.1.21288
PubMed 
29332109

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received September 17, 2017
  • Accepted November 21, 2017
  • Published online January 1, 2018.

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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. Faten N. AlZaben, MD,
  2. Mohammad G. Sehlo, MD,
  3. Waleed A. Alghamdi, MD,
  4. Haythum O. Tayeb, MD,
  5. Doaa A. Khalifa, MD,
  6. Abdulrahman T. Mira, House Officer,
  7. Abdulaziz M. Alshuaibi, House Officer,
  8. Mosab A. Alguthmi, House Officer,
  9. Ahmad A. Derham, Medical Student and
  10. Harold G. Koenig, MD⇑
  1. From the Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Harold G. Koenig, Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America. E-mail: Harold.Koenig{at}duke.edu ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-2573-6121
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