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Japiong, Milipaak
Landy, Christine Kurtz
Fox, Mary T.
Mensah, Joseph
Adatara, Peter
Ibrahim, Mudasir Mohammed
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Article History
Received: 29 October 2025
Accepted: 12 May 2026
First Online: 23 May 2026
Declarations
Ethical approval: The study was approved by the Human Participants Review Sub-Committee of York University’s Ethics Review Board in Toronto, Canada (STU 2023-082), and by the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Scientific and Technical Committee/Institutional Review Board in Ghana (KBTH/IRB/000135/2023). The study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki (2013) and the Canadian Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2, 2022). All participants provided electronic informed consent prior to participating in the study.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
