Yohannes, Bereket
Ejamo, Elias
Thangavel, Thilagavathi
Yohannis, Mulugeta
Article History
Received: 10 October 2016
Accepted: 16 January 2018
First Online: 31 January 2018
Authors’ information
: EE is currently working in a district health office in Southwest Ethiopia. He was a graduate of MSc in Human Nutrition from Wolaita Sodo University in Ethiopia. TT is an associate professor of applied human nutrition in the School of Public Health at Wolaita Sodo University. BY is a PhD Fellow in the Centre for International Health at the University of Bergen in Norway jointly with Hawassa University in Ethiopia. He has been working as an assistant Professor in the School of Public at Wolaita Sodo University, and MY is a graduate of MSc in Human Nutrition from the School of Public in Wolaita Sodo University.
: Ethical clearance was obtained from Research Ethics Committee at College of Health Sciences and Medicine in Wolaita Sodo University. The committee due the virtue of its mandate evaluated the written consent feasibility in relation to respondents’ education in rural Soro district and gave as approval for informed verbal consent. Thus, official letter of cooperation in attachment with ethical clearance was submitted to Soro District health office for permission. Through official communications to the lower administrative structures we reached to the study respondents. The nature of the study was explained to the study participants to obtain their verbal informed consent prior to participation. Confidentiality of participants was secured through anonymous codes of questionnaire. Any one sick in the household during the survey was linked to the nearby health facility in the area.
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