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Article History

Received: 15 April 2024

Accepted: 7 November 2024

First Online: 29 November 2024

Declarations

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: Ethical approval for the study was obtained from the Ghana Health Service Ethics Review Board <b>(GHS-ERC032/02/20).</b> Permission was obtained from the District Directors of Health Services at the Kassena-Nankana districts to access the contact list of the mothers from the health facilities. Oral informed consent was obtained before the interviews were conducted. The consent forms were translated into the preferred local language of the participants. All participants were informed before the start of the interview about project goals, how long the interview would last, their right to refuse being interviewed, the right to withdraw in the process of the interview and about the intended use of the results for scientific publications and also disseminate the findings to stakeholders. To ensure confidentiality, identification numbers were assigned to participants in the qualitative interviews instead of their names.

: The authors declare no competing interests.