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Fatima, Baba-Ali
Hayatu, Ahmad https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4818-2049
Hassan, Umar Mohammed
Muhammad, Kabiru
Yusuf, Ahmed
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Received: 30 September 2025
Accepted: 17 March 2026
First Online: 21 March 2026
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: Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Research and Ethics Committee of the Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe, Nigeria (approval number: NHREC/25/10/2013). All participants (or parents/guardians in the case of minors) provided written informed consent prior to enrolment. Participation was voluntary, and confidentiality was ensured by anonymising all data. The study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki (2013).
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
