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Prevalence and characteristics of autistic children attending autism centres in 2 major cities in Saudi Arabia
A cross-sectional study
Heba J. Sabbagh, Basma A. Al-Jabri, Malek A. Alsulami, Lutfi A. Hashem, Ala A. Aljubour and Rana A. Alamoudi
Saudi Medical Journal April 2021, 42 (4) 419-427; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.4.20200630
Heba J. Sabbagh
From the Department of Pediatric Dentistry (Sabbagh, Aljubour, Alamoudi), College of Dentistry (Alsulami, Hashem) and from the Department of Pediatrics (Al-Jabri), Faculty of Medicine, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
MDS, PhDBasma A. Al-Jabri
From the Department of Pediatric Dentistry (Sabbagh, Aljubour, Alamoudi), College of Dentistry (Alsulami, Hashem) and from the Department of Pediatrics (Al-Jabri), Faculty of Medicine, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
MDMalek A. Alsulami
From the Department of Pediatric Dentistry (Sabbagh, Aljubour, Alamoudi), College of Dentistry (Alsulami, Hashem) and from the Department of Pediatrics (Al-Jabri), Faculty of Medicine, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
BDSLutfi A. Hashem
From the Department of Pediatric Dentistry (Sabbagh, Aljubour, Alamoudi), College of Dentistry (Alsulami, Hashem) and from the Department of Pediatrics (Al-Jabri), Faculty of Medicine, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
BDSAla A. Aljubour
From the Department of Pediatric Dentistry (Sabbagh, Aljubour, Alamoudi), College of Dentistry (Alsulami, Hashem) and from the Department of Pediatrics (Al-Jabri), Faculty of Medicine, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
BDS, MDSRana A. Alamoudi
From the Department of Pediatric Dentistry (Sabbagh, Aljubour, Alamoudi), College of Dentistry (Alsulami, Hashem) and from the Department of Pediatrics (Al-Jabri), Faculty of Medicine, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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vol. 42 no. 4 419-427
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History
- Received October 18, 2020
- Accepted February 22, 2021
- Published online March 31, 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 License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Author Information
- Heba J. Sabbagh, MDS, PhD⇑,
- Basma A. Al-Jabri, MD,
- Malek A. Alsulami, BDS,
- Lutfi A. Hashem, BDS,
- Ala A. Aljubour, BDS, MDS and
- Rana A. Alamoudi, DScD, ABPD
- From the Department of Pediatric Dentistry (Sabbagh, Aljubour, Alamoudi), College of Dentistry (Alsulami, Hashem) and from the Department of Pediatrics (Al-Jabri), Faculty of Medicine, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Heba J. Sabbagh, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: hsabbagh{at}kau.edu.sa ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9788-0379
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Prevalence and characteristics of autistic children attending autism centres in 2 major cities in Saudi Arabia
Heba J. Sabbagh, Basma A. Al-Jabri, Malek A. Alsulami, Lutfi A. Hashem, Ala A. Aljubour, Rana A. Alamoudi
Saudi Medical Journal Apr 2021, 42 (4) 419-427; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2021.42.4.20200630
Prevalence and characteristics of autistic children attending autism centres in 2 major cities in Saudi Arabia
Heba J. Sabbagh, Basma A. Al-Jabri, Malek A. Alsulami, Lutfi A. Hashem, Ala A. Aljubour, Rana A. Alamoudi
Saudi Medical Journal Apr 2021, 42 (4) 419-427; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2021.42.4.20200630
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