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Article History

Received: 4 April 2023

Accepted: 7 July 2023

First Online: 12 July 2023

Declarations

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: This was a secondary analysis of the Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2017 (GSHS 2017), an anonymized publicly-available dataset from Lebenan. In addition, the GSHS protocol has been approved and guided by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Public Health in Lebanon. A letter describing the study and outlining the voluntariness of participation was delivered to parents and their permission was secured before the main survey. Adolescents were also given a consent form prior to data collection that explained the study's objectives, the confidentiality of the collected data, the fact that failing to participate would not affect their grade in class, that they could skip questions if they preferred not to, and that participation was entirely voluntary. Giving consent was regarded as taking part in the study.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declared no competing of interests.