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Article History

Received: 17 January 2018

Accepted: 25 September 2018

First Online: 4 October 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethics approval letter was secured from Institutional Review Board of Mekelle University (Reference N<u>o</u>: ERC 0539/2015). Additional support letter was obtained from Tigray Regional Health Bureau to conduct the study through which permission and cooperation was requested from each district office for administration. Informed consent was obtained from each study participant after they had been informed on purpose of the study, risk and benefit, anonymity, confidentiality and the right to discontinue at any moment from discussion. Along with the FGD guide, there was a consent form with two check boxes for acceptance and for decline for each participant. Verbal consent was preferred in our context without violating the ethical principles and it was approved by the committee..

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