Bustos-Fraga, Santiago
Salinas-Pinta, Marco
Vicuña-Almeida, Yosselin
de Oliveira, Ricardo Brandt
Baldeón-Rojas, Lucy
Article History
Received: 22 February 2023
Accepted: 30 May 2023
First Online: 6 June 2023
Declarations
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: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Ethics Committee for Research in Human Beings of the Central University of Ecuador (February 2020; 0121-SEISH-UCE-20) and the National Directorate of Health Intelligence of the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador (March 2020; MSP-DIS 2020–0135-O). An informed consent was obtained from the participants. Legally Authorized Representatives of illiterate participants provided informed consent for the study. In this case, the details of the study were explained verbally in the company of the legally authorized representative of the illiterate participants and the participant's fingerprint was placed on the informed consent.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.