Mistry, Sabuj Kanti
Ali, ARM Mehrab
Yadav, Uday Narayan
Das, Sukanta
Akter, Nahida
Huda, Md. Nazmul
Hadisuyatmana, Setho
Rahman, Sajedur
Lim, David
Rahman, Mohammad Mahmudur
Article History
Received: 10 September 2022
Accepted: 17 November 2022
First Online: 28 November 2022
Declarations
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: The institutional review board of the Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, approved the study protocol (Ref: IHE/2020/1037), and the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki were followed in every stage of the study. As the data collection was carried out remotely through telephone interviews, we were unable to obtain written informed consent from the participants. Instead, all participants who participated in the study provided voluntary verbal informed consent before the interview. The verbally informed consent procedure was approved by the institutional review board of the Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, from whom the approval of the study protocol was sought (Ref: IHE/2020/1037).
: All participants provided their voluntary informed consent for publication.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interest to disclose.