Cudjoe, Ebenezer http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9908-0834
Abdullah, Alhassan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-5340
Manful, Esmeranda http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6346-289X
Article History
Accepted: 3 February 2021
First Online: 24 February 2021
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Ethical approval was obtained from the research unit of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. A written informed consent was sought from all participants to indicate their voluntary participation. Permission in the form of formal letter was submitted to the Head of the Department in early June 2018 to seek official approval to conduct additional interviews with other parents. The letter included information to grant researchers the permission to witness cases as means to identify eligible research participants. Further, participants were assured of confidentiality pertaining information released to the researchers and anonymity regarding their personal information. Pseudonyms were used in cases where participants mentioned names of places or things that could reveal their identity.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants in the study.