Dadras, Omid
Suwanbamrung, Charuai
Jafari, Massoma
Stanikzai, Muhammad Haroon
Article History
Received: 8 February 2024
Accepted: 27 June 2024
First Online: 6 July 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
: The study was reviewed by the Research and Ethics Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Kandahar University, Afghanistan (Certificate #100; Dated 12/January/2024). The committee waived the ethical approval because secondary data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2022–2023 were used and analyzed in this study. For the MICS 2022–2023, consent to proceed with the interviews was obtained from all participants. For children, informed consent was obtained from their parents or other caretakers.