Bekele, Firomsa http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7855-9838
Chelkeba, Legese
Funding for this research was provided by:
Jimma University
Article History
Received: 8 May 2020
Accepted: 20 October 2020
First Online: 4 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical clearance was obtained from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Jimma University, with a reference number of IHRPGC/104/208. The ethics waiver was not applicable since the study was not a randomized clinical trial so that the study subjects never have been divided into experimental and control groups. Permission was obtained from the medical director of the NRH to access diabetes patients and conducts the study. The benefit and risks of the study were explained to each participant included in the study and written consent were obtained from each patient involved in the study. To ensure confidentiality, name and other identifiers of patients and health care professionals were not recorded on the data collection tools.
: Not applicable. No individual person’s personal details, images, or videos were being used in this study.
: No competing interests exist.