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Authors
Hazime, Zeinab
Ftouni, Hadi
Bazzal, Abbas Al
Chokor, Mariam
Kazan, Zeinab
Barakat, Rana
Hamawi, Lama
Baydoun, Kassem
Mansour, Samir
Hoballah, Abbas
Haidari, Rana El
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Article History
Received: 20 August 2025
Accepted: 27 December 2025
First Online: 3 January 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study is a secondary analysis of publicly available, aggregated, and anonymized national data, involving no human participants or identifiable private information. According to Lebanese national regulations, specifically the Ministry of Public Health Circular No. 117/2015/2016 (‘Regulating Scientific Health Research on Human Subjects in Lebanon’), formal Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval is mandated for research involving human subjects or identifiable data. As this study did not fall under this mandate, the need for ethical approval was formally waived by the Research Ethics Committee of the Health Society on January 26, 2025 (Reference: 260125-26). The research protocol was conducted in accordance with relevant ethical guidelines outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki.
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