Nyabundi, Agnetta Adiedo
Nyambedha, Erick Otieno
Merten, Sonja
Ombere, Stephen Okumu
Article History
Received: 1 March 2024
Accepted: 12 November 2024
First Online: 19 December 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Ethical clearance was sought from the Maseno University Ethics Review Committee (MUERC) reference number (MSU/DRPI/MUERC/00116/014). Permission was also sought from the gatekeepers at the community level and the Bondo sub-county hospital.
: The first author informed participants about the study, and oral and written informed consent was obtained from them. The first author assured the participants of their confidentiality during the research process by not using names in any instance while collecting data. For privacy, the authors presented results without referencing the participants’ names. The researchers further assured participants of anonymity and confidentiality for the recorded interviews. During the recorded interviews, the first author anonymised the names of the participants (names used for this paper are pseudonyms) and the data was kept safe only to be accessed by the researchers, ensuring the utmost security of the participants’ data.