Lokuge, Kamalini
Wallace, Polly
Subasinghe, Kalini
Thurber, Katherine
De Silva, Tissa
Clarke, Naomi
Waas, Dulshika
Liyanage, Nisansala
Attygalle, Udena
Carron-Arthur, Bradley
Rodrigo, Kalyana
Banks, Emily
D’Este, Cate
Rajapakse, Thilini
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government
Article History
Received: 4 September 2017
Accepted: 10 April 2018
First Online: 2 May 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (2017/EC/17) and the Human Research Ethics Committee, Australian National University (2017/066) have granted approval for this study. Individual consent will be obtained from all participants before any information is collected from them. Information will be collected from parents via anonymous, self-administered surveys. Mothers and fathers will provide different data by completing different surveys (one for all mothers and one for all fathers). For the mothers, a second stage of written consent will occur within the questionnaire, after full disclosure of the nature of the questions on family violence. If women do not wish to continue, they can submit their questionnaire without signing the second stage of consent and without completing the sections on family violence.
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