Effect of year of study on stress levels in male undergraduate dental students

Advances in Medical Education and Practice

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages 217-222

  Alzahem, Abdullah M ^a   Van der Molen, Henk T ^b   De Boer, Benjamin J ^c  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c PRINCESS NOURAH BINT ABDULRAHMAN UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Dental; Education; Stress; Students; Study year

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903934069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11797258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/AMEP.S46214     Document Type: Article

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