Orji, Bright Chukwudi
Bryce, Emily
Odio, Bartholomew
Onuoha, Herbert Enyeribe
Njoku, Elizabeth
Anoke, Charity
Ugwa, Emmanuel
Enne, Joseph
Oniyire, Adetiloye
Otolorin, Emmanuel
Afolabi, Kayode
Ogbulafor, Nnenna C.
Oliveras, Elizabeth
Article History
Received: 7 March 2022
Accepted: 12 July 2022
First Online: 27 July 2022
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (IRB#14369), the State Ministry of Health Ebonyi State Research Ethics Committee of Nigeria (#SMOH/ERC/018/20), and World Health Organization Research Ethics Review Committee (WHO/ERC#0003520). All methods in this study were carried out in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations of Helsinki Declaration. The study protocol was approved with statement on informed consent as submitted. Authors obtained informed consent from all the facility managers that participated in the study to abstract data from their antenatal care registers and maternity record booklets; while informed consent from research subjects was waived by the three approval organizations given that data abstracted and analyzed were collected as part of routine antenatal care, and usual health care services. In addition, the data do not involve sensitive topics and no identifying information was collected.
: Findings will be prepared for publication, and planned to publish in an indexed open-access journal.
: BO, EB, BO, HO, EN, CA, EU, JE, AO, EO, KA, NO, EO have no competing interests to declare.