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Prevalence of menstrual problems and their association with psychological stress in young female students studying health sciences

Nazish Rafique and Mona H. Al-Sheikh
Saudi Medical Journal January 2018, 39 (1) 67-73; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.1.21438
Nazish Rafique
From the Department of Physiology, Immam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MBBS, FCPS
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Mona H. Al-Sheikh
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vol. 39 no. 1 67-73
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.1.21438
PubMed 
29332111

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received October 16, 2017
  • Accepted December 6, 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. Nazish Rafique, MBBS, FCPS⇑ and
  2. Mona H. Al-Sheikh, MBBS, PhD
  1. From the Department of Physiology, Immam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Nazish Rafique, Department of Physiology, Immam Abdul Rehman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: nryahmed{at}uod.edu.sa ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1565-415X
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