Al-Surimi, Khaled http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7845-258X
Al-harbi, Iman
El-Metwally, Ashraf
Badri, Motasim
Funding for this research was provided by:
king Abdullah International Medical Research Center (RC11/097)
Article History
Received: 11 June 2018
Accepted: 17 January 2019
First Online: 25 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The research proposal was approved by both the Scientific Research Committee and the Institutional Research Board of the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center before the data was collected, protocol # RC11–097. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. The informed consent form was attached to each questionnaire informing the participant of the purpose of the study and importance of their participation and asking for their voluntary participation. Ethical concerns were respected during this study. The privacy, anonymity, and dignity of all respondents were assured, and informed consent was obtained. During data collection, the respondents were informed of the study-specific objectives and assured that the collected data would be handled with a high level of confidentiality, the questionnaire would be collected anonymously, and their answers kept absolutely confidential.
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