Wassie, Mulugeta
Aemro, Agazhe
Fentie, Beletech
Article History
Received: 24 October 2020
Accepted: 12 January 2021
First Online: 25 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of school of nursing and midwifery, Addis Ababa University. The letter of permission was written from school of nursing and midwifery to the cancer center of TASH. Then, the cancer center chief administrator allowed to collect the data from the cervical cancer patents medical records. The study was conducted without individual patient’s informed consent since it relies on chart review. In the data collection check lists, the names of the patients as well as their medical record numbers were not included for the sake of their privacy. Informed consent of the patients was waived off by the cancer center administrative officials of Tikur Anbesa Specialized Hospital (TASH), Ethiopia, as the data were intended to collect on the patient’s charts plus the individual patients could not be found during the data collection period. All the processes of the research were performed and secured in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.