Mohamud, Abdirahman Khalif http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6048-0112
Ahmed, Omar Abdullahi
Mohamud, Abdulrahman Ahmed
Dirie, Najib Isse
Article History
Received: 21 November 2022
Accepted: 27 March 2023
First Online: 7 April 2023
Declarations
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: This study was conducted following the rules and regulations of the World Medical Association’s declaration of Helsinki. Ethical clearance was obtained from the Banadir Hospital review board. Banadir Hospital’s ethical review board approved the process with approval number: <i>IRB Ref no</i>:-<i>2022/02/BH0039</i> since it was observational research with no intervention and no adverse on the participants. All eligible respondents explained the study objectives and requested participation. Illiterate respondents explained the study objectives through legal guardians without influence or coercion on their decision. Agreed participants gave written informed consent to sign or fingerprint for illiterate participants and only agreed participants were included in the study. Moreover, all participants were informed that they had a full right to participate or discontinue the interview at any time, confidentiality was kept, questionnaires were anonymous, and data were only present as a general number without reflecting individual information.
: All authors declare that they do not have any competing interests.
: Not applicable.