Almohaid, Shaimaa
Akhtar, Saeed http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1261-788X
Article History
Received: 5 October 2023
Accepted: 22 May 2024
First Online: 6 June 2024
Declarations
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: Before the interview, a written informed consent was sought both from the cases and controls after explaining the study objectives. Confidentiality of the data was assured to the participants. The study protocol was approved (protocol number 1007/11/08/2022) by the Ethics Committee of Ministry of Health, Kuwait. Additionally, the study protocol was also approved (#: VDR/EC-4056/178) the Ethics Committee of Health Sciences Center, College of Medicine, Kuwait University. The written Informed consent was sought from each study participant. All methods in this study were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations of Declaration of Helsinki for medical research involving human subjects.
: Consent to published research manuscript using deidentified data was sought as a part of the overall Informed Consent.
: The authors declare no competing interests.