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Stress and psychological resilience among general surgery residents during COVID-19 pandemic

Yasser M. Aljehani, Sharifah A. Othman, Nosibah K. Telmesani, Raghad A. Alghamdi, Hussah M. AlBuainain, Zeead M. Alghamdi, Hazem M. Zakaria, Farouk T. Alreshaid, Saleh A. Busbait, Abdullah A. Alqarzaie, Turki M. Alharbi and Ruba K. Alnajim
Saudi Medical Journal December 2020, 41 (12) 1344-1349; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.12.25577
Yasser M. Aljehani
From the Department of Surgery, King Fahad Hospital of the University, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MD, SCC-Surg
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Sharifah A. Othman
From the Department of Surgery, King Fahad Hospital of the University, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MBBS
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Nosibah K. Telmesani
From the Department of Surgery, King Fahad Hospital of the University, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Raghad A. Alghamdi
From the Department of Surgery, King Fahad Hospital of the University, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Hussah M. AlBuainain
From the Department of Surgery, King Fahad Hospital of the University, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MD, SCC-Surg
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Zeead M. Alghamdi
From the Department of Surgery, King Fahad Hospital of the University, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MD, SB-Surg
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Hazem M. Zakaria
From the Department of Surgery, King Fahad Hospital of the University, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Farouk T. Alreshaid
From the Department of Surgery, King Fahad Hospital of the University, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MD, SCC-Surg
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Saleh A. Busbait
From the Department of Surgery, King Fahad Hospital of the University, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdullah A. Alqarzaie
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Turki M. Alharbi
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Ruba K. Alnajim
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vol. 41 no. 12 1344-1349
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.12.25577
PubMed 
33294893

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received September 30, 2020
  • Accepted November 18, 2020
  • Published online December 1, 2020.

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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. Yasser M. Aljehani, MD, SCC-Surg,
  2. Sharifah A. Othman, MBBS,
  3. Nosibah K. Telmesani, MBBS,
  4. Raghad A. Alghamdi, MBBS,
  5. Hussah M. AlBuainain, MD, SCC-Surg,
  6. Zeead M. Alghamdi, MD, SB-Surg,
  7. Hazem M. Zakaria, MD, PhD,
  8. Farouk T. Alreshaid, MD, SCC-Surg,
  9. Saleh A. Busbait, MBBS,
  10. Abdullah A. Alqarzaie, MBBS,
  11. Turki M. Alharbi, MBBS and
  12. Ruba K. Alnajim, MBBS
  1. From the Department of Surgery, King Fahad Hospital of the University, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Yasser M. Aljehani, Department of Surgery, King Fahad Hospital of the University, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: Yjehani{at}iau.edu.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7252-2196
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