Monsalves, María José
Espinoza, Iris
Moya, Patricia
Aubert, Josefina
Durán, Doris
Arteaga, Oscar
Kaufman, Jay S.
Bangdiwala, Shrikant I.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (FONIS SA13I20130, FONIS SA13I20130, FONIS SA13I20130, FONIS SA13I20130, FONIS SA13I20130, FONIS SA13I20130)
Article History
Received: 8 November 2022
Accepted: 30 January 2023
First Online: 9 March 2023
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Chile (No. 131-2013). All methods were carried out in accordance with Declaration of Helsinki. A letter of invitation was sent to each school selected in the 13 districts included in our study. Subsequently, a letter of informed consent was sent to all parents or caregivers of eligible children in the schools that agreed to participate. Finally, parents provided the signed informed consent for examination, and children provided verbal assent.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and/or publication of this article.