Objective The objective was to report academic stress and prevalence of stress-related self-medication among undergraduate female students of health and nonhealth cluster colleges at a public sector university in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Materials and Methods A 5-month cross-sectional survey was conducted in the university. The survey included the English version of 10-item Perceived Stress Scal...

Ovarian arteries generally arise from the anterolateral (or lateral) aspect of the abdominal aorta caudal to the origin of the renal arteries at the level of L2 vertebra. The ovarian arteries may arise from the renal, suprarenal, inferior phrenic, superior mesenteric, lumbar, common iliac, or internal iliac arteries. This was a unique case, in which both ovarian arteries originated from 2 diffe...

While several studies examined land use and land cover changes in the central and western parts of Saudi Arabia, this study is the first to use remote sensing data to examine the decadal land cover changes in Saudi Arabia’s eastern coastal city of Al-Khobar between 1990 and 2013. Specifically, it utilized ISODATA classification method to classify Landsat TM, ETM+, and OLI data collected from 19...

OBJECTIVE The primary aim of the present study was to assess the quality of the Saudi Orthopedic Residency Program. METHODOLOGY As a comparator, a cross-sectional survey involving 76 Saudi residents from different training centers in Saudi Arabia namely; Riyadh, Jeddah, Medina, Abha, and Dammam and 15 Canadian. RESULTS The results showed that Canadian residents read more peer-reviewed, scho...

The effects of concentrations of fine particulate matter on urban populations have been gaining attention because fine particulate matter exposes the urban populace to health risks such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Satellite-derived data, using aerosol optical depth (AOD), have been adopted to improve the monitoring of fine particulate matter. One of such data sources is the glob...

OBJECTIVE This study aims at investigating the effect of response rate and class size interaction on students' evaluation of instructors and the courses offered at heath science colleges in Saudi Arabia. METHODOLOGY A retrospective study design was adapted to ascertain Course Evaluation Surveys (CES) conducted at the health science colleges of the University of Dammam [UOD] in the academic ye...

the staff working at beauty centers are exposed to various chemicalproducts used daily in their working environment. both hair dressers and nail techniciansare exposed to chemicals that are known to have an influence on the respiratory system.in order to evaluate such influence, this cross-sectional observational study wasconducted on a randomly selected 14 beauty centers in dammam city, saudi ...

The staff working at beauty centers are exposed to various chemicalproducts used daily in their working environment. Both hair dressers and nail techniciansare exposed to chemicals that are known to have an influence on the respiratory system.In order to evaluate such influence, this cross-sectional observational study wasconducted on a randomly selected 14 beauty centers in Dammam City, Saudi ...

The staff working at beauty centers are exposed to various chemicalproducts used daily in their working environment. Both hair dressers and nail techniciansare exposed to chemicals that are known to have an influence on the respiratory system.In order to evaluate such influence, this cross-sectional observational study wasconducted on a randomly selected 14 beauty centers in Dammam City, Saudi ...

OBJECTIVE We hypothesized that etoricoxib premedication would reduce the need for additional opioids following orthopedic trauma surgery. METHODS A double blind, controlled study, conducted in King Fahd University Hospital, King Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. After obtaining the approval of the Research and Ethics Committee and written consent, 200 American Society of Ane...