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Article History

Received: 21 January 2022

Accepted: 8 June 2022

First Online: 29 July 2022

Declarations

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: Ethical clearance was obtained from the Kenyatta National Hospital- University of Nairobi Ethical Review Committee (KNH-UON E.R.C- P631/10/2014), whilst permission to carry out the study was sought from the administration of KNH, GCH and MCRH. Informed consent was obtained from all participants at the time of recruitment after full explanation of the research objectives and activities involved. This was done in Kiswahili, the national language of communication. Consent to audio-record the interviews was equally obtained. All participants had adequate levels of literacy to understand the explanations and give consent. Participation in the study was purely voluntary with no monetary gains for the respondents. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. The data sets have no direct or indirect identifiers of the study participants.

: Consent to publish was obtained from all authors.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests that influenced participant participation, data interpretation or presentation of results.