Espinel-Flores, Verónica http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9557-2105
Gotsens, Mercè
Puig-Barrachina, Vanessa
León-Gómez, Brenda Biaani
Peralta, Andrés
Pérez, Glòria
Funding for this research was provided by:
Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENESCYT–Convocatoria Abierta 2012–Segunda Fase)
Article History
Received: 6 July 2019
Revised: 4 October 2020
Accepted: 20 October 2020
First Online: 3 November 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The author(s) declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Considering that this study implied no testing on human subjects, it is exempt of being considered by an ethic panel. Nevertheless, an informed consent form was fulfilled, and the participants were informed of the nature of the study. Importantly, the data base used in our study are freely available on the web site of the National Institute of Statistics and Census and protected by the data protection law of Ecuador.
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