Acknowledgments
The present manuscript was extracted from the Master’s thesis by Mohsen Sarani, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran. The study was approved by the Research Council and the Research Ethics Committee (IR.BPUMS.REC. 1402.038) of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran. We would like to thank the Deputy of Research at Bushehr University of Medical Sciences for the financial support. We would like to express our gratitude to the local authorities for their support, Bushehr Shohadaye Khalije Fars Hospital, Bushehr Tamin Ejtemayi Hospital and the participants and families for their active participation in the study. The contribution by the Director and staff of “The Persian Gulf Tropical Medicine Research Center” (specially Professor Katayoun Vahdat, Professor of Infectious Diseases) is very much appreciated.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
The study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the ethics committee (code: IR.BPUMS.REC. 1402.038) of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran. Informed consent was obtained from all the participants involved in the study or their legal guardians. The authors do not have any conflict of interest to declare.
Consent for publication
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Competing interests
The authors declare no competing interests.
Availability of data and material
The data in this study are available from Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study and are therefore not publicly available. However, the datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Funding
This work was supported by the Research Council of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences (grant number: IR.BPUMS.REC. 1402.038.). The Research Council of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences had no role in conducting the study, data analysis or interpretation, writing the manuscript, or decisions about submitting the script for publication.
Authors' contributions
The contribution of the authors to the research was as follows: Research design by MR, NM, GH, MS; data collection by MS, AN; research execution by MR, NM, GH, MS; data analysis by NM; documentation by MR, NM, GH, MS; and primary responsibility for the final content by MR and MS. All the authors have read and approved of the final manuscript.
Corresponding author
Correspondence to Maryam Ravanipour.
Author details
1. MSc. student in Nursing, Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Bushehr university of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran.
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2. MD.Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran.
3. MD. Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
4. BSc. In Nursing, Infection control expert nurse, Tamin Ejtemayi Hospital, Bushehr, Iran
5. Ph.D.Professor, The Persian Gulf Tropical Medicine Research Center, The Persian Gulf Biomedical Sciences Research; Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery Institute, Bushehr university of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran (Corresponding Author) email: [email protected]; [email protected]
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