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Childhood anxiety disorders prevalence in Saudi Arabia

Sulhi A. Alfakeh, Abdulelah A. Gadah, Khaled A. Alharbi, Fadi M. Jan, Mutasem S. Hejazi, Omar K. Addas, Mohammed K. Alamoudi and Ahmed I. Al Taifi
Saudi Medical Journal January 2021, 42 (1) 91-94; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.1.25624
Sulhi A. Alfakeh
From the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdulelah A. Gadah
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Khaled A. Alharbi
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Fadi M. Jan
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Ahmed I. Al Taifi
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vol. 42 no. 1 91-94
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.1.25624
PubMed 
33399176

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received August 14, 2020
  • Accepted December 9, 2020
  • Published online January 25, 2021.

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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. Sulhi A. Alfakeh, MD⇑,
  2. Abdulelah A. Gadah, MD,
  3. Khaled A. Alharbi, MD,
  4. Fadi M. Jan, MD,
  5. Mutasem S. Hejazi, MD,
  6. Omar K. Addas, MD,
  7. Mohammed K. Alamoudi, MD and
  8. Ahmed I. Al Taifi, MD
  1. From the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Sulhi A. Alfakeh, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: salfakeh{at}kau.edu.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1371-876X
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