Al-Hakeim, Hussein Kadhem http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6143-5196
Al-Rubaye, Haneen Tahseen
Al-Hadrawi, Dhurgham Shihab
Almulla, Abbas F. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7667-6731
Maes, Michael http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2012-871X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Islamic University of Najaf
Article History
Received: 30 April 2022
Revised: 1 October 2022
Accepted: 10 October 2022
First Online: 24 October 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The research was approved by the University of Kufa’s institutional ethics board (8241/2021) and the Najaf Health Directorate-Training and Human Development Center (Document No.18378/ 2021). The study was conducted according to Iraq and international ethics and privacy laws and was conducted ethically following the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. Furthermore, our IRB follows the International Guideline for Human Research protection as required by the Declaration of Helsinki, The Belmont Report, CIOMS Guideline and the International Conference on Harmonization in Good Clinical Practice (ICH-GCP).
: All participants gave written informed consent before participating in this study.
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