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Tesfaye, Lensa
Aklilu, Esayas
Tolossa, Ketema
Animut, Abebe
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Received: 24 March 2026
Accepted: 11 July 2026
First Online: 15 July 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This research was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval Committee or Internal Review Board (IRB). Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Research Ethics and Review Committee of the Aklilu Lemma Institute of Health Science, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, including members Birhanu Erko and Alemtsay Teka, with approval number (Ref. No. ALIPB IRERC/108/2015/23). Ethical clearance documentation has been uploaded in the point-by-point response to reviewers and editors. All human participants in this study provided their informed consent to participate.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
