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Prevalence of primary dysmenorrhea and its effect on the quality of life amongst female medical students at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

A cross-sectional study

Refan T. Hashim, Sara S. Alkhalifah, Alanoud A. Alsalman, Demah M. Alfaris, Munira A. Alhussaini, Raghda S. Qasim and Shaffi A. Shaik
Saudi Medical Journal March 2020, 41 (3) 283-289; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.3.24988
Refan T. Hashim
From the College of Medicine (Hashim, Alkhalifah, Alsalman, Alfaris, Alhussaini, Qasim), and from the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Shaik), King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Sara S. Alkhalifah
From the College of Medicine (Hashim, Alkhalifah, Alsalman, Alfaris, Alhussaini, Qasim), and from the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Shaik), King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Alanoud A. Alsalman
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Demah M. Alfaris
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Munira A. Alhussaini
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Raghda S. Qasim
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Shaffi A. Shaik
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vol. 41 no. 3 283-289
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.3.24988
PubMed 
32114601

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received August 9, 2019
  • Accepted February 3, 2020
  • Published online March 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. Refan T. Hashim, Medical Student,
  2. Sara S. Alkhalifah, Medical Student,
  3. Alanoud A. Alsalman, Medical Student,
  4. Demah M. Alfaris, Medical Student,
  5. Munira A. Alhussaini, Medical Student,
  6. Raghda S. Qasim, Medical Student and
  7. Shaffi A. Shaik, PhD⇑
  1. From the College of Medicine (Hashim, Alkhalifah, Alsalman, Alfaris, Alhussaini, Qasim), and from the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Shaik), King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Prof. Shaffi A. Shaik, Prince Sattam Chair for Epidemiology and Public Health Research, Department of Family & Community Medicine, College of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: sshaik{at}ksu.edu.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9900-5116
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