Todowede, Olamide
Nisar, Zara
Afaq, Saima
Kanan, Sushama
Ayub, Aliya
Huque, Rumana
Hussain, Akhtar
Shehzad, Mudasser
Siddiqi, Najma
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health and Care Research (17/63/130, 17/63/130, 17/63/130, 17/63/130, 17/63/130, 17/63/130)
Article History
Received: 3 October 2024
Accepted: 22 April 2025
First Online: 17 May 2025
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Health Science Research Governance Committee (HSRGC/2020/418/D) of the University of York. Ethical approval was received in all two countries through Ark Foundation in Bangladesh and KMU(Dir/KMU-EB/IPHSS/MM-001) in Pakistan. All procedures performed in the study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the National Research Committee and the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors declare no competing interests.