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Horiuchi, Sayaka https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5050-8732
Nakdouangma, Bounthanome
Khongsavat, Thipphaphone
Kubota, Shogo
Yamaoka, Kazue
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Received: 22 February 2019
Accepted: 28 January 2020
First Online: 10 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The data were collected as part of project activities to improve maternal and child health outcomes in Lao PDR. The project had permission to collect data in Lao PDR under an agreement with the Lao government including Sekong PHD []. The data were initially collected to feedback to regular activities of the Sekong PHD supported by the project. At the time of data collection in the preceding survey, verbal consent was obtained by all participants. Verbal consent was chosen because the data collection was done as a part of the project to be conducted by or subject to the approval of local government officials and was designed to evaluate service programs, procedures for obtaining benefits to be reflected for improvement of the project. JICA had obtained all data related to the project activities including the interview survey according to agreement with Lao government, and the data were stored within the organization in Japan after completion of the project. Therefore, we requested a permission of secondary usage of the data from JICA and received an ethics approval by the institutional review board of Teikyo university in Japan on 20th of Jun, 2018. Upon the ethical approval, all participants of the preceding survey were informed about the present study with an opt-out option in Lao language. Anonymous data of participants who did not request exclusion from the present study were provided to the research team. The procedure was assessed and approved by the ethics committee. The approval number is 18–040. Ethical approval from the Lao national ethics committee was waivered as the present study was the secondary analysis of anonymized data. Instead, we informed about data usage to Lao Ministry of Health and Sekong PHD. Any additional survey for the present study was not conducted.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
