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Article History

Received: 15 September 2022

Accepted: 16 November 2022

First Online: 15 January 2023

Declarations

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: The Ethical clearance was obtained from the ethical review board of Debre Tabor University. An official permission letter was obtained from the Debre tabor town health office. As per the request of the investigator, the Debre tabor town health office wrote a letter of permission and submitted it to each public health facility focal person. The objective, methods of data collection, anticipated benefit, and risk of the study were explained to the study participants, and written informed consent was obtained from each study subject after an explanation of the purpose of the study and to be a participant after their complete consent. Any pregnant women attending antenatal care and who were not willing to participate in the study were not forced to participate in the study and they had the right to withdraw or refuse to give information at any time in the study without compromising the service they had to get from the facility. No personal identifications were incorporated in the datasheet and all data taken from the participants were kept strictly confidential and used only for the study purpose.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.