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Oo, Nwe
Saw, Yu Mon
Aye, Hnin Nwe Ni
Aung, Zaw Zaw
Kyaw, Hnin Nandar
Tun, Ae Mon
Kariya, Tetsuyoshi
Yamamoto, Eiko
Hamajima, Nobuyuki
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Received: 5 June 2018
Accepted: 18 March 2019
First Online: 27 March 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Technical and Ethical Review Board, University of Public Health, Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar (Ethical No-ITERB-2017/Research/4). The permission to conduct the school-based survey was also approved by Regional Office of Basic Education, Nay Pyi Taw Union Territory, and Department of Food and Drug Administration, Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar. In addition, the permission to conduct the interview, and written inform consents were obtained from local Parents-Teacher Association, Local Educational Steering authorities, high school authorities, and teachers. The study objectives, the contents of questionnaires, and rights of study participants were explained to collaborators and study participants before obtaining permissions and conducting interviews. In addition, the survey information sheet that included school-based survey objectives, the contents of questionnaires and rights of study participants were distributed to parents a week before the survey. This interview procedure was approved by the Institutional Technical and Ethical Review Board, University of Public Health, Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar. The ethical committee also waived to obtain written inform consent from parents if the study obtained the permissions to conduct the survey from Ministry Office, Regional/Local Offices, and other authorities. The school-based interviews and inspections were conducted only after getting written informed consent, and permission from responsible headmasters of the schools. Confidentiality of all collected data was given a high priority during each stage of data handling. Each student name was anonymized by a random identical number. If a respondent declined to participate in this study, the interview was not conducted.
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