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The prevalence of internet gaming disorder among medical students at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

A cross-sectional study

Mohammad I. Al Asqah, Adel I. Al Orainey, Maan A. Shukr, Hassan M. Al Oraini and Yousef A. Al Turki
Saudi Medical Journal December 2020, 41 (12) 1359-1363; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.12.05584
Mohammad I. Al Asqah
From the College of Medicine, (Al Asqah, Al Orainey, Shukr, Al Oraini), and from the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Al Turki), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Adel I. Al Orainey
From the College of Medicine, (Al Asqah, Al Orainey, Shukr, Al Oraini), and from the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Al Turki), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Maan A. Shukr
From the College of Medicine, (Al Asqah, Al Orainey, Shukr, Al Oraini), and from the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Al Turki), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Hassan M. Al Oraini
From the College of Medicine, (Al Asqah, Al Orainey, Shukr, Al Oraini), and from the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Al Turki), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Yousef A. Al Turki
From the College of Medicine, (Al Asqah, Al Orainey, Shukr, Al Oraini), and from the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Al Turki), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 41 no. 12 1359-1363
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.12.05584
PubMed 
33294895

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received September 25, 2020
  • Accepted November 21, 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. Mohammad I. Al Asqah, Medical Student,
  2. Adel I. Al Orainey, Medical Student,
  3. Maan A. Shukr, Medical Student,
  4. Hassan M. Al Oraini, Medical Student and
  5. Yousef A. Al Turki, MBBS, ABFM
  1. From the College of Medicine, (Al Asqah, Al Orainey, Shukr, Al Oraini), and from the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Al Turki), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Mr. Mohammad I. Al Asqah, College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: miasqah{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1221-6533
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