Said, Zeinab Nabil Ahmed https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9788-9058
Salama, Iman I.
Zaky, Samy
El Shazly, Sumaya H.
Elzahaby, Amagd A.
El azhary, Shaaban Salah
El-Raey, Fathiya
Eid, Khaled A.
Rushdi, Areej
Ghamry, Aya
Kamhawy, Arwa
El-Nasser, Asmaa M.
El-hariri, Hazem M.
Salama, Somaia I.
Elshaarawy, Ghada A.
Ahmed, Doaa E.
Eldeeb, Sherif E.
Saleh, Rehan
Elmosalami, Dalia M
Elshemy, Eman
Elgendy, Naglaa A.
Abdelmageed Abdelmageed, Neamat
Eid, Alshaimaa M.M
Mohammed, Shaymaa M
Alim, Alshaymaa A. Abdel
Ahmed, Ahmed E.
Kadah, Ahmed S.
Shaheen, Mohamed A.
Elshafei, Abdou Mabrouk
Bayoumy, Ibrahim Metwally
Abobakr, Badawy W.
Heggazy, Mohamed Mousa
Ghazy, Ahmed M.
Ashry, Walaa M. O.
Elrifai, Atef W.
Haridy, Mustafa A.
Abdelrazzak, Emad
Hassan, Amro M.
Mohammed, Ahmed Qasem
Abdelmola, Omran Mohamed
Sawy, Safwat Salama
Karimian, Zahra
Kheirandish, Mehrnaz
Fahmy, Kamal
Rashidian, Arash
Seddik, Mahmoud
Funding for this research was provided by:
Al-Azhar University
Article History
Received: 2 January 2025
Accepted: 25 July 2025
First Online: 26 September 2025
Declarations
:
: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and the protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of Al-Azhar University on 5/12/2021 (AU-REC-2021-0002). Informed written consent was provided by each participant.
: No individual person’s data in any form is included, where each participant was allocated a unique study ID number- using a barcode-at enrollment. Informed written consent was provided by each participant.
: This study received full technical and financial support from the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. WHO registries file number: 2022/1276447.
: Clinical trial number.
: Not applicable.
: This study received full technical and financial support from the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. WHO registries file number: 2022/1276447-.