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Kabalo, Bereket Yohannes http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2646-6883
Gebreyesus, Seifu Hagos
Loha, Eskindir
Lindtjørn, Bernt
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
South Ethiopia Network of Universities in Public Health project, under the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development
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Article History
Received: 11 December 2018
Accepted: 11 November 2019
First Online: 20 November 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The institutional review committee at Hawassa University in Ethiopia (IRB/002/09) and Regional Committee for Medical and Research Ethics in Western Norway (2016/482/REK vest) approved a protocol for this study. The ethical approval included consent form with detailed procedures for verbal informed consent. Permission letters were obtained from relevant local administration offices. The research objective was explained, and verbal informed consent was obtained from each participant. Responses were made anonymous by using unique household identification numbers. Confidentiality of the information was assured by all the data collectors and investigators.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
