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Adeyinka, Daniel Adedayo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1855-6878
Muhajarine, Nazeem http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6781-5421
Petrucka, Pammla http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3174-3328
Isaac, Elon Warnow http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9754-4615
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Article History
Received: 2 June 2020
Accepted: 11 October 2020
First Online: 27 October 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study is a secondary data analysis of publicly available de-identified dataset. After an official request to UNICEF MICS headquarters New York, we were given administrative permission to access and analyze the dataset. Ethical clearances were obtained earlier by the UNICEF MICS team from National Health Research Ethics Committee (NHREC), Nigeria before survey commencement. In addition, this study was exempted from ethical review by the University of Saskatchewan Research Ethics Committee. The participants’ anonymity and confidentiality are assured. The study protocol, survey instrument, and other materials were approved prior to the commencement of the primary survey. Also, written informed consent was obtained from all mothers in the survey by MICS team during field work.
: Written consent was obtained from respondents. All respondents were informed of the voluntary nature of participation and the confidentiality and anonymity of information. Also, they were informed of their right to refuse answering any question, as well as to stop the interview at any time.
: No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
