Tekelab, Tesfalidet http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0774-7708
Chojenta, Catherine
Smith, Roger
Loxton, Deborah
Funding for this research was provided by:
TT PhD funded by UoN (c3250363)
Article History
Received: 5 November 2019
Accepted: 4 June 2020
First Online: 9 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was granted from the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) of the University of Newcastle, Australia (reference no. H-2017-0253; date: 15-Jun-2018) and Institutional Review Board located in SNNPR Health Bureau, Ethiopia (reference no.PM 37–186/24015). Informed verbal consent was obtained from the mothers of newborns before conducting the interviews. The ethics committees had approved the verbal consent procedure. Consent was requested after the data collectors shared the information sheet with the mothers of the newborns. The interviewer read the information statement to the mothers or, if the mothers were literate and wanted to read the information statement themselves, the interviewer provided it to them. Some of the mothers of the newborns involved in this study were younger than 16 years of age. Based on Ethiopia’s national research ethics review guidelines, participants less than 18 years of age were considered emancipated minors and were allowed to give informed consent [CitationRef removed]. Parental consent was obtained to review the medical records of the newborn.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.