Adjah, Joshua
Fiadzoe, Bless
Ayanful-Torgby, Ruth
Amoah, Linda E. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1652-8489
Funding for this research was provided by:
Government of Ghana
Article History
Received: 16 January 2018
Accepted: 21 August 2018
First Online: 29 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical clearance for this study was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR). Approval to conduct the study was also granted by the Regional and District Directors of Education that have oversight over primary schools from which study participants were recruited. The study was explained to the parents / guardians of the school children prior to initiating the study. Only children whose parent / guardian provided written informed consent were recruited into the study.
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