Institutional Review Board Statement
MAY
The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (protocol code KBTH-IRB/00011/2022; date of approval 24 May 2022) and the Deakin University Human Research Ethics Committee (protocol code 2022-041; date of approval 13 May 2022). The study protocol was also registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (registration number: ACTRN12622000323729p, date of approval 21 February 2022).