James, Peter Bai
Yendewa, George A
Bah, Abdulai Jawo
Osborne, Augustus
Kpagoi, Satta Sylvia
Margao, Emmanuel Kamanda
Kangbai, Jia
Wardle, Jon
Article History
Received: 2 September 2022
Accepted: 14 November 2023
First Online: 22 November 2023
Declarations
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: We did not obtain ethical clearance to conduct this study since we conducted a secondary analysis of a publicly available dataset (ExternalRef removed ). Nevertheless, approval to conduct the 2019SLDHS was granted by the Sierra Leone Ethics and Scientific Review Committee and the ICF Institutional Review Board [CitationRef removed]. Informed consent was obtained from all study participants. Also, permission to use the 2019SLDHS dataset was granted by the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) Program.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declared no conflict of interest.