Ayele, Tafere Birlie
Moyehodie, Yikeber Abebaw
Article History
Received: 16 April 2022
Accepted: 14 March 2023
First Online: 24 March 2023
Declarations
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: Not applicable.
: Ethical clearance was obtained from the ethical review committee of the College of Medicine and Health Science at Bahir Dar University (with reference number IRB/204/2021). Also, same ethics committee waived the need of informed consent. Letter of correspondence from Bahir Dar University, College of Medicine and Health Science was written to public hospitals in the east Gojjam zone. Following these, the hospital record office gave us permission to collect required data. However, informed consent from study participants was not required because the nature of the study was extracting & analyzing the existing data, which posed minimal risks to the study subjects. Nonetheless, data collectors maintained confidentiality through excluding names or any other personal identifiers from data collection sheets and reports. All methods were carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: The authors declared that no competing interests exist.