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Chekol TA, Prevalence and its associated factors of physical aggressive behavior among high school students in Bahir Dar City, Northern Ethiopia [Master’s thesis, Department of Psychiatry College Of Medicine and Health Sciences School Of Medicine, Bahir Dar University) 2022.
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Chekol, A., Wale, M.A., Abate, A.W. et al. Retraction Note: Predictors of depression among school adolescents in Northwest, Ethiopia, 2022: institutional based cross-sectional. BMC Psychiatry 24, 198 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-05645-y
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