Article History
Received: 19 January 2023
Accepted: 20 November 2023
First Online: 16 January 2024
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Regional State Health Bureau’s Research Ethical Review Committee, in Hawassa, Ethiopia prior to recruitment and data collection (Ref.No.6–19/14/42). The Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Regional State Health Bureau’s Research Ethical Review Committee approved both written and oral informed consent to be sought from participants. All participants provided written or oral informed consent prior to enrolment in the study. All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.