Aquil, Amina
EL Kherchi, Ouassil
EL Azmaoui, Naoual
Mouallif, Mustapha
Guerroumi, Maroua
Chokri, Aziz
Jayakumar, Arumugam R.
Benider, Abdellatif
Elgot, Abdeljalil
Article History
Received: 1 November 2020
Accepted: 19 May 2021
First Online: 3 June 2021
Declarations
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: This study was conducted in a framework that respects the ethics and dignity of patients. Ethical approval was obtained from the Moroccan Association for research and ethics, Research Ethics Committee (No. 02/REC/20). All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee. Confidentiality and anonymity criteria were met as charted by the declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. All participants in the study were informed about the study. The schooled patients had enough time to read the consent form and additional explanations were given when necessary, then they signed written informed consent. For the unschooled patients, the Research Ethics Committee authorized us to proceed with a verbal consent followed by a fingerprint (Additional files InternalRef removed, InternalRef removed).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.