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Authors
Farfán Bajaña, María José
Zevallos, Juan Carlos
Chérrez-Ojeda, Ivan
Alvarado, Geovanny
Green, Tiffany
Kirimi, Betty
Jaramillo, Daniel
Felix, Miguel
Vanegas, Emanuel
Farfan, Alejandra
Cadena-Vargas, Manuel
Simancas-Racines, Daniel
Faytong-Haro, Marco
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Article History
Received: 9 May 2024
Accepted: 23 July 2024
First Online: 5 August 2024
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: We evaluated the necessity of IRB (institutional review board) approval according to the FIU’s Institutional Review Board guidelines. According to their guidelines, this project did not require IRB approval because there was no direct interaction with human subjects, and the dataset was available in the public domain. We used the 2020 BRFSS dataset administered by the CDC for this analysis. Interested researchers can access public data via the following website: “.” Other researchers will be able to access the dataset in the same manner as the author. The CDC required informed consent from all participants of the survey they administered. According to Article 43, Letter b of the regulation for the approval and monitoring of the ethics committee of human beings of Ecuador, investigations using open or public data are considered risk-free.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
