Bano, Shermeen
Rahat, Rahla
Fischer, Florian
Article History
Received: 18 April 2022
Accepted: 28 March 2023
First Online: 3 April 2023
Declarations
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: The study has been performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. All KSWs included in the study provided informed written consent before the start of the interview. Illiterate persons were informed in detail verbally before the study started and provided their sign afterwards. This procedure was reviewed and approved by the Departmental Ethical Review Committee, University of the Punjab (201/DERC/ISCS/PU, September 18, 2017), which also approved verbal consent of illiterate participants.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. FF serves as Academic Editor for BMC Public Health.