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Article History

Received: 1 February 2018

Accepted: 13 July 2018

First Online: 13 September 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar reviewed and approved the proposal to conduct the study and written ethical permission letter was received. Additional permission letters to conduct this study were obtained from all selected government institutions in Bahir Dar town. Verbal consent was obtained from each respondents after explaining the purpose of the study. Participants were also informed that they have full right to discontinue or refuse to participate in the study. They were also informed that all data obtained from them will be kept confidential and personal identifiers were not used. Finally, the data collection facilitators arranged a separate room to help respondents fill the questionnaire privately.

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