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Received: 1 May 2017

Accepted: 5 January 2018

First Online: 12 January 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethical approval was obtained from the Ghana Health Service Ethical Review Board (PROTOCOL ID NO: GHS-ERC 05/02/16). Permission was equally sought from the District Directorate of Education and Heads of Schools before the commencement of the study. Parents’ consent were sought through heads of schools. School age children between the ages of 5 and 12 years registered in the school for at least one academic year whose parents or guardians provided Consent were recruited unto the study.

: This manuscript is a project work undertaken by author CG in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of Bachelor of Public Health Degree by the School of Public Health of the University of Health and Allied Sciences. The project work was supervised by authors MPK and FBZ who were involved in the conceptualization of the research idea and provided guidance in data collection and analysis of the project. The lead author led in the writing of the manuscript with inputs from the co-authors. All authors have given consent for publication of this manuscript in the Biomed Central Nutrition Journal.

: All authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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