Kebede, Ashenafi
Amsalu, Desalegn
Yosef, Dawit
Article History
Received: 30 June 2023
Accepted: 27 February 2024
First Online: 7 March 2024
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was waived by the local Ethics Committee of the University Gondar College of Social Science in view of the retrospective nature of the study and all the procedures being performed were part of routine care under (004/16/SPH) (POSTGR/091/26/2022).
: The informed consent written by the university was provided to the informant prior to the basic data collection. The authors, based on the provided inclusion criteria, selected eligible participants for the study. Following that, the eligible participants were asked about their willingness to participate in the study and informed about the objective of the study. The reliability and validity of the data were assured through a briefing of the overall purpose of the study to the participants, and to ensure their confidentiality, the researchers informed them that they could decline participation if they were unwilling to be involved. In the meantime, the researchers provided informed consent for those who are able to write and read; however, they were reading aloud to the participants traced as being illiterate. Following that, they agreed and signed the informed consent after hearing and reading the provided document.
: The authors declare no competing interests.