AlKhaldi, Mohammed http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1224-8102
Abed, Yehia
Pfeiffer, Constanze
Haj-Yahia, Saleem
Alkaiyat, Abdulsalam
Tanner, Marcel
Funding for this research was provided by:
Swiss Federation through Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Scholars
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Article History
Received: 5 October 2017
Accepted: 12 April 2018
First Online: 18 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Research Commission of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) approved the study (FK No. 122; approval date: 21 October 2015). Ethical approval was also obtained from the “Ethikkommission Nordwest- und Zentralschweiz” (EKNZ) in Switzerland (reference No. UBE-15/116; approval date: 23 January 2016). Ethical and administrative approval from the Palestinian Ministry of Health was obtained on 28th April 2016, the institutional review board of Helsinki Committee in Palestine (reference No. PHRC/HC/73/15; approval date: 7 December 2015), and the institutional review board at Najah National University (reference No. 112/Nov./2015, approval date: 6 December 2015).
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