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Illness anxiety disorder and perception of disease and distress among medical students in western Saudi Arabia

Heba A. Ezmeirlly and Fayssal M. Farahat
Saudi Medical Journal November 2019, 40 (11) 1144-1149; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.11.24654
Heba A. Ezmeirlly
From the Family Medicine (Ezmeirlly), King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital; from the Infection Prevention and Control Department (Farahat), King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Farahat), Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
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Fayssal M. Farahat
From the Family Medicine (Ezmeirlly), King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital; from the Infection Prevention and Control Department (Farahat), King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Farahat), Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
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vol. 40 no. 11 1144-1149
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.11.24654
PubMed 
31707412

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received July 7, 2019
  • Accepted October 16, 2019
  • Published online November 1, 2019.

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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. Heba A. Ezmeirlly, MBBS⇑ and
  2. Fayssal M. Farahat, MD, PhD⇑
  1. From the Family Medicine (Ezmeirlly), King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital; from the Infection Prevention and Control Department (Farahat), King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Farahat), Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Fayssal Farahat, Infection Prevention and Control Department, King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: fmfayssal{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5186-2872
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