Funding for this research was provided by:
Hawassa University
Article History
Received: 12 January 2018
Accepted: 17 January 2019
First Online: 28 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical clearance was obtained from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Hawassa University, College of Medicine and Health Sciences. Data were collected after securing informed verbal consent from the caregivers of the children. Verbal consent, instead of written consent, was preferred because most of the study respondents were not literate. The same was approved by the IRB that reviewed the protocol of the study.
: Consent to publish the data was taken from the parents of the study participants.
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