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Article History

Received: 26 September 2022

Accepted: 6 February 2023

First Online: 10 February 2023

Declarations

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: Ethical clearance for the proposed study was obtained from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Addis Ababa University, College of Health Science (Protocol No: IRB/066/20/SNM). A permission letter was obtained from Addis Ababa University, College of Health Sciences, School of Nursing and Midwifery, to the administrator of the study site. A letter of cooperation was secured from the administrative bodies of the hospitals. Consent was obtained from the medical directors and cancer treatment centers' focal persons of public hospitals. Written informed consent had been obtained from them for literate participants and from their literate legally authorized representatives or guardians for illiterate participants before the interview. The privacy of the participants was respected during the interview. Confidentiality of the information was maintained throughout the study by anonymously excluding patient names as identification from the data collection form. The study was conducted following the Declaration of Helsinki.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declared that they have no competing interests in this work.