Ashkar, Catherine El
Nakkash, Rima
Matar, Amal
Makhoul, Jihad
Funding for this research was provided by:
International Development Research Centre (103899, 103899, 103899)
Article History
Received: 28 March 2024
Accepted: 22 July 2024
First Online: 8 August 2024
Declarations
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: Approval was obtained from the Social and Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review Board at the American University of Beirut (SBS-2022-0196) for the in-depth interviews. Approvals were also obtained from country sites where available; Jordan University of Science and Technology Institutional Review Board (Ref.: 10/142/2021), United Arab Emirates (United Arab Emirates University Ref Number ERS_2022_8469), and Oman Medical Research Ethics Committee (MREC), College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University-(REF. NO. SQU-EC/614/2021). The other three countries did not require an ethics review for social science research, and consequently, AUB-IRB approval sufficed. Informed consent was obtained from all the participants in the study.
: There are no data in the manuscript that can be used to identify any of our participants.
: The authors declare no competing interests.