Addisu, Yohannes
Wassie, Gizachew Tadesse http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6213-0191
Article History
Received: 30 January 2024
Accepted: 16 May 2024
First Online: 22 May 2024
Declarations
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: Primarily, ethical approval letter was obtained from the College of Medical and Health Science Institutional Review Board (IRB) Committee of Bahir Dar University. All methods were performed in accordance with the National Health Research Ethics Review Guideline.The need for informed consent was waived by the IRB of Bahir-Dar University based on our National Research Ethics Review Guideline which entitled “Waiver of informed consent or documentation of informed consent should be approved by the IRB.” By using this National Research Ethics Review Guideline statement on pages 38 and 39, the IRB committee was declared that no need for informed consent because of the nature of secondary data, and it was deemed unnecessary. In addition, waived informed consent by IRB was exercised as a result of the research project carrying no more than minimal risk according to the national regulation, and ethical approval guidelines (national-research-ethics-review-guidline. For further information, you can contact the chairperson of IRB with the email address below (Mulusew.Andualem@bdu.edu.et).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.