Adam, Lina N. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9977-4388
Al-Habib, Omar A. M. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0945-4001
Oraha, Ashur Y. http://orcid.org/0009-0001-2565-1040
Shekha, Mudhir S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9552-838X
Article History
Received: 13 December 2023
Accepted: 16 February 2024
First Online: 21 February 2024
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Duhok Directorate General of Health in Duhok, Iraq (Trial registration: 15092021-9-12. Registered 15 September 2021). All procedures performed on human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All participants in our study were of legal age and provided informed written consent.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.