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Contraceptive use as limiters and spacers among women of reproductive age in southwestern, Saudi Arabia

Mohammed A. Alsaleem, Shamsun N. Khalil, Aesha F. Siddiqui, Maha M. Alzahrani and Safar A. Alsaleem
Saudi Medical Journal November 2018, 39 (11) 1109-1115; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.11.22817
Mohammed A. Alsaleem
From the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Alsaleem, Khalil, Siddiqui, Alsaleem), College of Medicine, King Khalid University, and from the Ministry of Health (Alzahrani), Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
SBFM, ArBFM
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Shamsun N. Khalil
From the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Alsaleem, Khalil, Siddiqui, Alsaleem), College of Medicine, King Khalid University, and from the Ministry of Health (Alzahrani), Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Aesha F. Siddiqui
From the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Alsaleem, Khalil, Siddiqui, Alsaleem), College of Medicine, King Khalid University, and from the Ministry of Health (Alzahrani), Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Maha M. Alzahrani
From the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Alsaleem, Khalil, Siddiqui, Alsaleem), College of Medicine, King Khalid University, and from the Ministry of Health (Alzahrani), Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Safar A. Alsaleem
From the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Alsaleem, Khalil, Siddiqui, Alsaleem), College of Medicine, King Khalid University, and from the Ministry of Health (Alzahrani), Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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vol. 39 no. 11 1109-1115
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.11.22817
PubMed 
30397710

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received August 24, 2018
  • Accepted October 22, 2018
  • Published online November 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. Mohammed A. Alsaleem, SBFM, ArBFM⇑,
  2. Shamsun N. Khalil, PhD,
  3. Aesha F. Siddiqui, MD, DFM,
  4. Maha M. Alzahrani, SBFM and
  5. Safar A. Alsaleem, SBFM, ArBFM
  1. From the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Alsaleem, Khalil, Siddiqui, Alsaleem), College of Medicine, King Khalid University, and from the Ministry of Health (Alzahrani), Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Mohammed A. Alsaleem, Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: mabade{at}kku.edu.sa ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-3205-1713
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