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Article History

Received: 17 July 2023

Accepted: 25 December 2023

First Online: 4 January 2024

Declarations

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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Written informed consent was obtained from all the participants. Written consent was taken from each participant and Data collection methods was designed to protect the confidentiality of the information obtained by assigning a code number to all data after verbal consent was taken. Also, ethical approval was taken from the Faculty of Medicine, The National Ribat University, Khartoum North Locality Institute and Bahari town locality.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declared that they have no competing interests.