Sleep habits and sleep problems among Palestinian students

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sweileh, Waleed M ^a   Ali, Iyad A ^a   Sawalha, Ansam F ^a   Abu Taha, Adham S ^a   Zyoud, Sa'ed H ^a   Al Jabi, Samah W ^a  

^a AN NAJAH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARAB; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BED; FEMALE; HABIT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NIGHT SLEEP; NIGHTMARE; PALESTINE; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP QUALITY; STUDENT;

EID: 79960560347     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17532000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1753-2000-5-25     Document Type: Article

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