Santiago, Rosario Valdez
Monreal, Luz Arenas
Rojas Carmona, Anabel
Domínguez, Mario Sánchez http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1595-6916
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Center for Gender Equity and Reproductive Health
Article History
Received: 2 August 2017
Accepted: 13 June 2018
First Online: 18 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Our research protocol was approved by the Research and Ethics Committees of the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico (INSP by its Spanish initials) (authorization number CI: 1050). Consent was obtained from the women who participated in the study prior to recording their semi-structured interviews. Likewise, consent was obtained from the nurses and physicians prior to recording their focus group meetings. In both cases, informed consent was obtained verbally. Each participant was handed an information card containing the contact details of the head of the INSP Ethics Committee and of the researcher in charge of the project. We did not seek consent from the parents of underage women because, upon contacting them, we noted that, despite being minors, they were emancipated adolescents who voluntarily decided to participate in the study as informants.
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