Tadesse, Bereket
Shimelis, Techalew
Worku, Mesfin
Article History
Received: 15 February 2019
Accepted: 10 October 2019
First Online: 1 November 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical clearance was obtained after review and approval of the proposal by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Hawassa University College of Medicine and Health Science. Then support letters were obtained from the School of Medical Laboratory Science and concerned health facilities administration. Each study parent/guardian was informed about the objective study and all information contained within the questionnaire is to be kept confidential. Moreover, he/she has been well informed of his/her right to refuse information, decline to cooperate and drop out of the study if he/she want and none of his/her actions will have any bearing at all on child overall health care. Therefore, with full understanding of the situations, the agreed parents/guardians were put their signature on written consent form. Data was collected after the parents/guardians gave written consent.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.