Dickson, Kwamena Sekyi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3152-2317
Darteh, Eugene Kofuor Maafo
Kumi-Kyereme, Akwasi
Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku
Article History
Received: 25 October 2017
Accepted: 11 April 2018
First Online: 11 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval for the data collection was provided by the Ethical Review Committee of Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana and the Institutional Review Board of ICF International, USA. Each respondent provided informal verbal and written consent to participate in the study. For respondent below 18 years (the statutory age for defining adulthood), parental or legal guardian consent followed by respondent assent was secured. Consent to participate is not applicable to our study since it utilised DHS data.
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