Gorlortor, Joeline T.
Gonyon, Letha
Gaidya, Teiko
Gedegar, Williametta
Fully, Prince L. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4973-297X
Candy, Neima https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4941-0097
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Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare that the research was conducted without any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Funding Support: This research did not receive any specific support from public, commercial, or non-profit agencies. The research was undertaken as part of academic training at the University of Liberia School of Public Health, without external funding.
: Yes, securing ethical approval and consent from all participating individuals is essential. The ethical approval and consent are as follows. This study was conducted as part of an educational training program at the University of Liberia School of Public Health. Although formal IRB approval was not obtained before data collection, we followed fundamental ethical principles such as: (1) obtaining written informed consent from all participants, (2) ensuring voluntary participation with the right to withdraw, (3) protecting confidentiality through data anonymization, and (4) ensuring secure data storage. All techniques followed the University of Liberias ethical guidelines and the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki for human subject research.
Data Access Statement and Material Availability: The raw data supporting the conclusions of this article will be made available by the authors, without undue reservation, to any qualified researcher upon reasonable request. Data requests should be directed to the corresponding author.
Authors Contributions: Each author has individually contributed to the article. Prince L. Fully: Conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, investigation, writing – original draft, supervision, project administration. Neima Candy: Data curation, investigation, writing – review and editing, visualization. Joeline T. Gorlortor: Methodology, validation, resources, writing – review and editing, funding acquisition. Letha Gonyon: Investigation, data curation, writing – review and editing. Teiko Gaidya: Investigation, data curation, writing – review and editing. Williametta Gedegar: Investigation, data curation, writing – review and editing.