Vu, Thi Hoang Lan
Bui, Thi Tu Quyen
Tran, Quoc Bao
Pham, Quynh Nga
Lai, Duc Truong
Le, Tu Hoang
Minh Hoang, Van
Article History
Received: 27 September 2023
Accepted: 30 November 2023
First Online: 5 December 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The paper was based on secondary data from the STEPS 2010, 2015, and 2021, with all identifying information removed. All procedures performed in STEPs involving human participants followed the ethical standards of The Ethical Review Board for Biomedical Research and relevant guidelines and regulations. The original STEPS surveys were approved by the Ethics Committee of the Vietnam Ministry of Health and the Tasmanian Health and Medical Human Research Ethics Committee in 2010 and the Hanoi School of Public Health in 2015 and 2020. All information on the original dataset was collected confidentially. The informed consent was obtained from all subjects in all 3 rounds of STEPs.
: Not applicable.