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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, FCPSMona H. Al-Sheikh
From the Department of Physiology, Immam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MBBS, PhD
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vol. 39 no. 1 67-73
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- Received October 16, 2017
- Accepted December 6, 2017
- Published online January 1, 2018.
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- Nazish Rafique, MBBS, FCPS⇑ and
- Mona H. Al-Sheikh, MBBS, PhD
- From the Department of Physiology, Immam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- 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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