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The importance of hand hygiene education on primary schoolgirls’ absence due to upper respiratory infections in Saudi Arabia

A cluster randomized controlled trial

Abrar A. Alzaher, Sami S. Almudarra, Muna H. Mustafa and Ibrahim M. Gosadi
Saudi Medical Journal October 2018, 39 (10) 1044-1049; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.10.23344
Abrar A. Alzaher
From the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Alzaher); Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, from the Prince Sattam Chair for Epidemiology and Public Health Research, Department of Family and Community Medicine (Gosadi), Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Field Epidemiology Training Program (Almudarra), Assistant Agency of Preventive Health, Public Health Agency, Ministry of Health; and from the Osteoporosis Control Program, Health Programs and Chronic Diseases Department (Mustafa), Public Health Directorate, Directorate General of Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Sami S. Almudarra
From the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Alzaher); Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, from the Prince Sattam Chair for Epidemiology and Public Health Research, Department of Family and Community Medicine (Gosadi), Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Field Epidemiology Training Program (Almudarra), Assistant Agency of Preventive Health, Public Health Agency, Ministry of Health; and from the Osteoporosis Control Program, Health Programs and Chronic Diseases Department (Mustafa), Public Health Directorate, Directorate General of Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Muna H. Mustafa
From the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Alzaher); Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, from the Prince Sattam Chair for Epidemiology and Public Health Research, Department of Family and Community Medicine (Gosadi), Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Field Epidemiology Training Program (Almudarra), Assistant Agency of Preventive Health, Public Health Agency, Ministry of Health; and from the Osteoporosis Control Program, Health Programs and Chronic Diseases Department (Mustafa), Public Health Directorate, Directorate General of Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ibrahim M. Gosadi
From the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Alzaher); Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, from the Prince Sattam Chair for Epidemiology and Public Health Research, Department of Family and Community Medicine (Gosadi), Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Field Epidemiology Training Program (Almudarra), Assistant Agency of Preventive Health, Public Health Agency, Ministry of Health; and from the Osteoporosis Control Program, Health Programs and Chronic Diseases Department (Mustafa), Public Health Directorate, Directorate General of Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 39 no. 10 1044-1049
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.10.23344
PubMed 
30284589

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received July 18, 2018
  • Accepted September 19, 2018
  • Published online October 1, 2018.

Copyright & Usage 
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. Abrar A. Alzaher, MD⇑,
  2. Sami S. Almudarra, DFE, PhD,
  3. Muna H. Mustafa, MD, MDCM and
  4. Ibrahim M. Gosadi, MPH, PhD
  1. From the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Alzaher); Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, from the Prince Sattam Chair for Epidemiology and Public Health Research, Department of Family and Community Medicine (Gosadi), Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Field Epidemiology Training Program (Almudarra), Assistant Agency of Preventive Health, Public Health Agency, Ministry of Health; and from the Osteoporosis Control Program, Health Programs and Chronic Diseases Department (Mustafa), Public Health Directorate, Directorate General of Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Abrar Alzaher, Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: abraralzaher{at}yahoo.com ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3156-6675
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