Salwa, Marium https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7869-3343
Atiqul Haque, Md
Khalequzzaman, Md
Al Mamun, Mohammad Abdullah
Bhuiyan, Mahfuzur Rahman
Choudhury, Sohel Reza
Funding for this research was provided by:
Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212 (DGHS/LD/NCDC/Procurement Plan/GOB(Service)/2017-2018/539/SP-06)
Article History
Received: 19 May 2019
Accepted: 24 June 2019
First Online: 25 July 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval of this protocol was obtained from BSMMU’s Institutional Review Board (BSMMU/2018/5958). Informed written consent will be obtained from school authority and the principal and informed written assent will be obtained from every student before participation in the study.Consent from the parents or legal guardians of the students will be obtained through implied consent procedure following WHO guideline. Parents or legal guardians of the selected students will be informed about the intervention over telephone and through notice on school diary. If the parents send their children on the day of intervention, it will be regarded as their implied consent. No written consent will be obtained from the guardians other than the implied consent as only a few students will be invited to join the health education program, and this procedure of taking implied consent has been approved by the Institutional Review Board, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.