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Article History

Received: 28 January 2023

Accepted: 12 April 2023

First Online: 5 May 2023

Declarations

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: This study was submitted for review by the Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa do Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, da Universidade Federal da Bahia (CEP ISC UFBA) / Research Ethics Committee of the Institute of Collective Health, Federal University of Bahia (Process N° 027/21 CEP ISC; CAAE: 48060221.0.0000.5030) which approved it, under protocol number 4.833.744, and granted exemption from the requirement of obtaining an informed consent term from the participants. We followed all the ethical precepts established in the Declaration of Helsinki and Brazilian regulations for research with human beings. The data were obtained under authorization from the Directorate of Epidemiological Surveillance of Bahia (Diretoria de Vigilância Epidemiológica da Bahia). To preserve identified data confidentiality and privacy, only the main researcher, who is also an epidemiological surveillance professional, accessed and processed them. The dataset linkage was done in a safe environment (a computer with a Kaspersky Total Security antivirus and VPN connection). After this procedure, all identification attributes of the participants were excluded.

: Not applicable.

: The authors report no conflict of interests.