Balami, Ahmed Dahiru http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7370-4955
Said, Salmiah Md.
Zulkefli, Nor Afiah Mohd
Norsa’adah, Bachok
Audu, Bala
Article History
Received: 7 March 2020
Accepted: 7 January 2021
First Online: 21 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was obtained to carry out the research, from the Ethics Committee for Research Involving Human Subjects of the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) (UPM/TNCPI/RMC/1.4.18.2 (JKEUPM). Permission was also obtained from the Ethics Committee of the State Specialist Hospital, Maiduguri (SSH/GEN/64/Vol.1). The study was then registered with the Pan African Clinical Trials Registry (PACTR201610001823405). A respondent’s information sheet in Hausa language was provided to each participant, from whom informed consent was obtained, after they had been taken through it, before their participation in the study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.