Lakhdir, Maryam Pyar Ali http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3053-2887
Peerwani, Ghazal
Soomar, Salman Muhammad
Nathwani, Apsara Ali
Farooq, Salima
Ali, Naureen Akber
Khaliq, Asif
Kadir, Muhammad Masood
Azam, Syed Iqbal
Funding for this research was provided by:
FHS Research Committee, Aga Khan University, Pakistan (PF99/0417)
Article History
Received: 25 February 2021
Accepted: 1 July 2021
First Online: 14 July 2021
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was taken from The Aga Khan University Ethical Review Committee (4816-CHS-ERC-17). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional committee.
: Before data collection, the parents of all adolescents wishing to participate were asked to sign a written form of consent for their children to be included. The children of non-consenting parents did not participate in data collection. Informed assent was also obtained from all individual participants under 18 years included in the study.
: The author's consent for publication of this paper. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript. This manuscript has not been published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
: The authors declare that they have nso competing interests. The authors report no competing interests.