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Article History

Received: 6 November 2019

Accepted: 26 April 2020

First Online: 27 May 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The Mpumalanga Province Department of Health’s Research and Ethics Committee and the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of the Witwatersrand (M110568) approved this study. All of the participants were recruited voluntarily and were guaranteed anonymity. Each participant received information (in Shangaan) about the study and its purpose; that is, to investigate the views and practices regarding the lifestyle when it comes to dating, contraception, pregnancy, parenthood, infant-care, risk of getting illnesses like STI and HIV, self-care, and care-seeking. The participants signed an informed consent form for the study and the recorded interviews, and they were also informed that they could withdraw from the study at any time. Furthermore, participants were assured that no content from their interviews would be shared with any of the young people previously interviewed in the larger, related project. Similarly, they were told that information obtained during the interviews with the young people would not be shared with them as caregivers during the forthcoming interviews.

: The informed consent form mentioned above also included information about publication. The participants were informed that the results in case of publication will not lead to individual identification.

: No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.