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International Journal of Community & Family Medicine Volume 1 (2016), Article ID 1:IJCFM-118, 6 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-3498/2016/118
Research Article
Lifestyle Factors and Internet Addiction among School Children

Abdulbari Bener1,2*, Huda S. Al-Mahdi3 and Dinesh Bhugra4

1Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
2Department of Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
3Department of Ophthalmology, Rumailah and Hamad General Hospitals, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar
4HSPRD, Section of Cultural Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
Prof. Abdulbari Bener, Advisor to WHO, Professor of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, 34098 Cerrahpasa-Istanbul,Turkey, Tel: +90-212-414 3041; E-mail: abdulbari.bener@istanbul.edu.tr
11 August 2016; 12 November 2016; 14 November 2016
Bener A, Al-Mahdi HS, Bhugra D (2016) Lifestyle Factors and Internet Addiction among School Children. Int J Community Fam Med 1: 118. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-3498/2016/118
This work was generously supported and funded by the Qatar National Research Fund.
© 2016 Bener et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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