Okoro, Roland Nnaemeka https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6391-5000
Adibe, Maxwell Ogochukwu
Okonta, Mathew Jegbefume
Ummate, Ibrahim
Ohieku, John David
Yakubu, Sani Ibn
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tertiary Education Trust Fund
Article History
Received: 19 August 2020
Accepted: 22 March 2021
First Online: 26 March 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the study, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of the study hospitals with approval numbers UMTH/REC/18/234 and SSH/GEN/641/Vol. I. All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: The purpose of the study was explained to all the potential participants and written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. They were assured of the anonymity and confidentiality of the information provided.