Laikemariam, Melaku
Aklilu, Almaz
Waltengus, Fikadu
Addis, Melkamu
Gezimu, Wubishet
Baye, Fekadu
Getaneh, Temesgen
Article History
Received: 5 November 2022
Accepted: 21 April 2023
First Online: 2 May 2023
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: An ethical clearance letter was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of Bahir Dar University, College of Medicine and Health Sciences. A letter of cooperation was submitted to each hospital office of the obstetrics and gynecology department units. Based on the 1964 Helsinki Declaration, after a detailed explanation of the study’s risks and benefits, written informed consent was obtained from each participant. The consent was taken from parents or companions for those participants under the age of 18 (not autonomous). Those uneducated participants put their fingerprints down in the consent document after the data collector orally present consent materials using a consent document as a guide for the verbal explanation of the study and allow sufficient time for questions to be asked and answered both by the subject and by the person obtaining consent to ensure the participants comprehends the consent information with impartial third party witness about the consent process and sign the consent document.Furthermore, the collected data were kept private and secured, with only the principal investigators having access.
: Not applicable. Since we didn`t used any private files of individuals.
: All the information used in this study is included in the manuscript.
: The authors declared no potential conflict of interest regarding the research, authorship, funding, or publication.