Othman, Essam R. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5795-5831
Abdelmagied, Ahmed M.
Khashbah, Maha Y.
Lambalk, Cornelis B.
Mijatovic, Velja
Article History
Received: 10 October 2023
Accepted: 13 January 2024
First Online: 30 January 2024
Declarations
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: The research protocol was approved by the Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF), which is a part of the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education in 2014. Additional approval was obtained by The Institutional Review Board at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Assiut, (IRB# 17400008) in February 2018 to use the data for publication.A research team member (MYK) explained the study in details and its objectives to the participants and obtained their verbal informed consent to take part in the study. Another researcher (ERO) assured participants about data anonymity to protect the confidentiality of their information and double checked that participants gave their verbal informed consent.
: The manuscript does not contain any individual person data. So, consent for publication is not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.