Lee, Anne CC http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9737-3476
Mullany, Luke C.
Koffi, Alain K.
Rafiqullah, Iftekhar
Khanam, Rasheda
Folger, Lian V.
Rahman, Mahmoodur
Mitra, Dipak K.
Labrique, Alain
Christian, Parul
Uddin, Jamal
Ahmed, Parvez
Ahmed, Salahuddin
Mahmud, Arif
DasGupta, Sushil K.
Begum, Nazma
Quaiyum, Mohammad A.
Saha, Samir K.
Baqui, Abdullah H.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01 HD066156-02)
Article History
Received: 8 October 2019
Accepted: 6 December 2019
First Online: 31 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by the institutional review boards of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Institutional Review Board (Baltimore, Maryland), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh Ethical Review Committee (iccdr,b) (Dhaka, Bangladesh), and Partners Human Research Committee (Boston, MA).Participants were enrolled after providing verbal informed consent for the main RCT. Verbal consent was obtained because the majority of the prospective study population was illiterate at the initiation of the study (2012). Documentation of verbal informed consent was formally approved by all participating institutional review boards.The study was explained to the study participants, questions answered, and the name of the study participant, date of consent, and name/signature of the study staff obtaining verbal consent were collected on a paper consent document. A paper copy of the consent form was provided to the study participant.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.