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Perceived awareness of sleep paralysis phenomenon (old hag syndrome) and its most common risk factors among people from Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

Fatimah J. Aledili, Fatimah A. Albahrani, Laila Y. Alalawi, Fatema Rafea Aleliwi, Fatimah A. Bomouzah, Ghadeer Z. Alghasham, Khalid M. Alhajri and Majed Alabdali
Saudi Medical Journal December 2021, 42 (12) 1302-1312; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.12.20210628
Fatimah J. Aledili
From the College of Medicine, (Aledili, Albahrani, Alalawi, Bomouzah, Alghasham), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alahsa; from the Division of Neuroscience (Aleliwi), Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam; from the Department of Neurology (Alabdali), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Fatimah A. Albahrani
From the College of Medicine, (Aledili, Albahrani, Alalawi, Bomouzah, Alghasham), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alahsa; from the Division of Neuroscience (Aleliwi), Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam; from the Department of Neurology (Alabdali), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Laila Y. Alalawi
From the College of Medicine, (Aledili, Albahrani, Alalawi, Bomouzah, Alghasham), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alahsa; from the Division of Neuroscience (Aleliwi), Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam; from the Department of Neurology (Alabdali), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Fatema Rafea Aleliwi
From the College of Medicine, (Aledili, Albahrani, Alalawi, Bomouzah, Alghasham), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alahsa; from the Division of Neuroscience (Aleliwi), Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam; from the Department of Neurology (Alabdali), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Fatimah A. Bomouzah
From the College of Medicine, (Aledili, Albahrani, Alalawi, Bomouzah, Alghasham), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alahsa; from the Division of Neuroscience (Aleliwi), Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam; from the Department of Neurology (Alabdali), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Ghadeer Z. Alghasham
From the College of Medicine, (Aledili, Albahrani, Alalawi, Bomouzah, Alghasham), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alahsa; from the Division of Neuroscience (Aleliwi), Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam; from the Department of Neurology (Alabdali), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Khalid M. Alhajri
From the College of Medicine, (Aledili, Albahrani, Alalawi, Bomouzah, Alghasham), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alahsa; from the Division of Neuroscience (Aleliwi), Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam; from the Department of Neurology (Alabdali), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Majed Alabdali
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vol. 42 no. 12 1302-1312
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.12.20210628
PubMed 
34853135

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received August 6, 2021
  • Accepted October 4, 2021
  • Published online December 1, 2021.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work.

Author Information

  1. Fatimah J. Aledili, MBBS,
  2. Fatimah A. Albahrani, MBBS,
  3. Laila Y. Alalawi, MBBS,
  4. Fatema Rafea Aleliwi, MBBS,
  5. Fatimah A. Bomouzah, MBBS,
  6. Ghadeer Z. Alghasham, MBBS,
  7. Khalid M. Alhajri, MBBS and
  8. Majed Alabdali, MD⇑
  1. From the College of Medicine, (Aledili, Albahrani, Alalawi, Bomouzah, Alghasham), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alahsa; from the Division of Neuroscience (Aleliwi), Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam; from the Department of Neurology (Alabdali), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Majed Alabdali, Department of Neurology, Imam Abdulrahaman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: mmalabdali{at}iau.edu.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2493-779X
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Perceived awareness of sleep paralysis phenomenon (old hag syndrome) and its most common risk factors among people from Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
Fatimah J. Aledili, Fatimah A. Albahrani, Laila Y. Alalawi, Fatema Rafea Aleliwi, Fatimah A. Bomouzah, Ghadeer Z. Alghasham, Khalid M. Alhajri, Majed Alabdali
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