Eshete, Akine
Mohammed, Sadat
Shine, Sisay
Eshetie, Yosef
Assefa, Yibeltal
Tadesse, Nigussie
Article History
Received: 9 December 2022
Accepted: 10 April 2023
First Online: 19 April 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest
: Ethical approval was obtained from the Asrat Woldeyes Health Science Campus, Debre Berhan University, Institutional Review Board (Approval No.IRR-087). All study procedures performed in the intervention and control groups followed the ethical standards of the 2008 Revised Declaration of Helsink [CitationRef removed]. All participants in the control group received information about their active participation in physical activity from their physician. Letter of permission was secured from all concerned administrators of hospitals. All participants signed an informed consent form. By removing all identifiers from the questionnaire, confidentiality issues were maintained and all data collected were kept strictly confidential at all stages of data processing.