Koller, Theadora Swift http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7690
Janeva, Jelena Kjetkovikj http://orcid.org/0009-0002-4850-0592
Ognenovska, Elena http://orcid.org/0009-0006-0504-2439
Vasilevska, Ana http://orcid.org/0009-0002-9894-0764
Atanasova, Simona http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7546-4297
Brown, Chris http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9660-4244
Dedeu, Antoni http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2568-849X
Johansen, Anne http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8007-7811
Article History
Received: 1 November 2023
Accepted: 15 December 2023
First Online: 15 March 2024
Declarations
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: The study received approval from the Ethics Committee for Human Research, from the Medical Faculty at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, as well as the global WHO Research Ethics Review Committee. All participants in the study were asked for consent, in the appropriate language, and only those who provided consent were included. All research was carried out in keeping with the standards of the World Medical Association’s 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences international ethical guidelines, as well as WHO’s ethical standards and procedures for research with human beings.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.