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Article History

Received: 23 February 2020

Accepted: 25 May 2020

First Online: 3 June 2020

Competing interest

: The authors declare that they have no competing interest

: Ethical clearance was obtained from the institutional review board of the University of Gondar College of Medicine and Health Sciences on behalf of the School of Nursing ethical review committee. Official letter of permission was obtained from Dessie Referral Hospital administration as a gateway. As the data source was secondary, informed consent was waived. However, since the principal investigator, supervisor, and data collector access subject charts, strong contractual agreement was signed to assure accountability for any confidentiality issue and loss of neonate charts as well as records. The signed contractual agreement was submitted to the hospital administrators, for evidence of assurance. Besides, charts were locked in a cabinet, and data was secured with a password after entered into a computer. Additionally, the analysis was done in a group to keep the confidentiality of individual neonate information.

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