Tarimo, Clifford Silver
Mahande, Michael J.
Obure, Joseph
Funding for this research was provided by:
German Academic Exchange Service London (57220758)
Article History
Received: 23 January 2020
Accepted: 9 March 2020
First Online: 18 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study sought and was granted an ethical approval from Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College Research and Ethics Committee with reference number 985. The registry project obtained informed verbal consents from the study subjects during development of the medical registry database and was approved by the Ministry of Health of Tanzania and the National Ethics Committee in Norway prior to its commencement. For practical reasons, since the interview was administered just after the woman had given birth, consent was given verbally. The midwife nurse gave every woman oral information about the birth registry, the data needed to be collected from them and the use of the data for research purposes. Following the consent, the woman could still opt not to reply to individual questions. All consent procedures were approved by the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre ethical committee and the administrative permission to access the data was provided by the KCMC hospital. Furthermore, confidentiality and privacy were assured as per the protocol of the birth registry. Patients’ names were coded by the unique hospital registration numbers to ensure anonymity.
: Not Applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.