Mumin, Abdul Alhassan
Gyasi, Razak Mohammed http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6733-1539
Segbefia, Alexander Yao
Forkuor, David
Ganle, John Kuumuori
Article History
First Online: 5 March 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: All procedures undertaken in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. In line with the Declaration of Helsinki (1964), the ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Committee on Human Research Publication and Ethics (CHRPE), School of Medical Sciences at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana (Ref: CHRPE/AP/507/16).All study participants and their heads of households were initially briefed on the main purposes of this study and all that was required of them. Participation was voluntary. Informed written and verbal consents were obtained from all research participants. Individual respondents were requested to sign or thumbprint a written informed consent form. Those who were not comfortable signing or thumb printing the written consent form were given the option to provide verbal consent. Respondents were assured of strict confidentiality and anonymity of the responses they provided. To protect the identity of the respondents, no names or other identifying features of the participants were collected.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.