Article History
Received: 7 June 2019
Accepted: 27 November 2019
First Online: 13 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Approval to conduct this study was granted by An-Najah National University Institutional Review Board before initiation of this study. Obtaining only verbal consent was approved by the ethics committee. Authorisation from the Palestinian health authorities was also obtained. Informed verbal consent was granted by all participants rather than written consent because the research did not involve any therapeutic intervention and the participations in the study were clearly below minimal risk. Verbal consent was obtained from the patients before starting data collection. The interviewer read the consent form in Arabic to each participant. When participants gave verbal consent to participate, a copy of the consent form attached to each form of data collection was marked by the interviewer.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.