Muniro, Zainab
Tarimo, Clifford Silver
Mahande, Michael J.
Maro, Eusebious
Mchome, Bariki
Article History
Received: 12 January 2019
Accepted: 24 June 2019
First Online: 2 July 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was obtained from Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College Research Ethics Committee with reference number 971. Permission to use medical birth registry was obtained from KCMC administrative authority. For practical reasons, the midwives give oral information individually to each mother and then asked her willingness to participate/be enrolled in the study and their data to be used for the public benefits. Following consent, the mother could still choose not to reply to single question. In order to document the consent process, the birth registry has an instruction manual for registration of deliveries in the registry. This manual contains the standard operating procedures on how to conduct the interview and also has a description of the basic rules including ethical guidelines such as consent process. The consent procedure was approved by the ethics committee as it was part of the study protocol.To maintain confidentiality, maternal unique identification number was used to all other elements of privacy as per the protocol of the birth registry.
: A verbal consent to publish individual details (information) were provided by each of the study participants after being explained about the objectives of the medical birth registry and the benefits of the data generated to be shared to the public.
: The authors declared to have no competing interests.