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Stigmatizing attitudes of tertiary hospital physicians towards people with mental disorders in Saudi Arabia

Sami Y. Saad, Asma S. Almatrafi, Rahaf K. Ali, Yasmin M. Mansouri and Omniah M. Andijani
Saudi Medical Journal September 2019, 40 (9) 936-942; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.9.24510
Sami Y. Saad
From the Neuroscience Department (Saad), King Abdullah Medical City Specialist Hospital, Makkah; Umm Al Qura University (Almatrafi, Ali); from the Medicine Department (Mansouri), King Abdulaziz Medical City; from King Abdulaziz University (Andijani), Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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From the Neuroscience Department (Saad), King Abdullah Medical City Specialist Hospital, Makkah; Umm Al Qura University (Almatrafi, Ali); from the Medicine Department (Mansouri), King Abdulaziz Medical City; from King Abdulaziz University (Andijani), Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Rahaf K. Ali
From the Neuroscience Department (Saad), King Abdullah Medical City Specialist Hospital, Makkah; Umm Al Qura University (Almatrafi, Ali); from the Medicine Department (Mansouri), King Abdulaziz Medical City; from King Abdulaziz University (Andijani), Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Yasmin M. Mansouri
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vol. 40 no. 9 936-942
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.9.24510
PubMed 
31522222

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received June 18, 2019
  • Accepted August 20, 2019
  • Published online September 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.

Author Information

  1. Sami Y. Saad, MD⇑,
  2. Asma S. Almatrafi, MD,
  3. Rahaf K. Ali, Medical Student,
  4. Yasmin M. Mansouri, MD and
  5. Omniah M. Andijani, MD
  1. From the Neuroscience Department (Saad), King Abdullah Medical City Specialist Hospital, Makkah; Umm Al Qura University (Almatrafi, Ali); from the Medicine Department (Mansouri), King Abdulaziz Medical City; from King Abdulaziz University (Andijani), Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Sami Y. Saad, Neuroscience Department, King Abdullah Medical City Specialist Hospital, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: sami_yahya{at}hotmail.com
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