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Received: 26 July 2023

Accepted: 27 November 2024

First Online: 31 December 2024

Declarations

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: The Ethical Committee of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of Ghent University, Belgium, granted ethical approval in 2018 under no. 2017-37 for this research study. Permission to work in the community was obtained from the responsible authorities, with the help of the Health Services Academy, Pakistan (host institution).

: Not applicable.

: Informed consent was obtained/taken from all participants of the research. A form was prepared for the informed consent including information of the researcher, institution’s information, host institution’s information, study participants’ rights i.e. they are willingly participating in the study, they have information regarding the research study, they can ask questions regarding it, they can quit it anytime and some more similar items. It also included the information regarding research study. I collected informed consent from all study participants written. The formally educated persons read and signed the consent. Legal representative of the non-formally educated persons read and signed the consent on behalf of the participants (legal representative read the form, discuss it with ‘to be participants’, discuss with researcher and signed it.

: The authors declare no competing interests.