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Sleep disturbance and medical requests among university and college students in Chongqing, China

A cross-sectional study

Ting Wang, Jiuheng Yin, Chen Hu, Wanzhen Tang, Xiaowen Che and Ying Liu
Saudi Medical Journal November 2023, 44 (11) 1153-1159; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2023.44.11.20230420
Ting Wang
From the Department of Nursing (Wang, Tang, Che, Liu), Faculty of Nursing, Chongqing Medical and Pharmaceutical College, from the Department of General Surgery (Yin), The Second Affiliated Hospital, Army Medical University, and from the Department of Encephalopathy (Hu), Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Chongqing, China.
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From the Department of Nursing (Wang, Tang, Che, Liu), Faculty of Nursing, Chongqing Medical and Pharmaceutical College, from the Department of General Surgery (Yin), The Second Affiliated Hospital, Army Medical University, and from the Department of Encephalopathy (Hu), Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Chongqing, China.
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From the Department of Nursing (Wang, Tang, Che, Liu), Faculty of Nursing, Chongqing Medical and Pharmaceutical College, from the Department of General Surgery (Yin), The Second Affiliated Hospital, Army Medical University, and from the Department of Encephalopathy (Hu), Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Chongqing, China.
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Wanzhen Tang
From the Department of Nursing (Wang, Tang, Che, Liu), Faculty of Nursing, Chongqing Medical and Pharmaceutical College, from the Department of General Surgery (Yin), The Second Affiliated Hospital, Army Medical University, and from the Department of Encephalopathy (Hu), Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Chongqing, China.
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Xiaowen Che
From the Department of Nursing (Wang, Tang, Che, Liu), Faculty of Nursing, Chongqing Medical and Pharmaceutical College, from the Department of General Surgery (Yin), The Second Affiliated Hospital, Army Medical University, and from the Department of Encephalopathy (Hu), Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Chongqing, China.
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Ying Liu
From the Department of Nursing (Wang, Tang, Che, Liu), Faculty of Nursing, Chongqing Medical and Pharmaceutical College, from the Department of General Surgery (Yin), The Second Affiliated Hospital, Army Medical University, and from the Department of Encephalopathy (Hu), Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Chongqing, China.
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