Aiga, Hirotsugu http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5910-3379
Abe, Kanae
Andrianome, Vonjy Nirina
Randriamampionona, Emmanuel
Razafinombana, Angèle Razafitompo
Murai, Toshiyasu
Hara, Masahiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan International Cooperation Agency ((no specific award number was assigned))
Article History
Received: 11 November 2018
Accepted: 20 May 2019
First Online: 17 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was submitted to the National Committee for Biomedical Research Ethics, the Malagasy Ministry of Health, for its ethical clearance. Yet, the Committee officially approved the study protocol by exempting it from an ethical clearance process, due to low level invasiveness of the study design (Exemption letter No. 52). An advanced informed consent to participate in both anthropometric measurements and structured household interviews was obtained in written form from the parents of each sampled schoolchild.
: Similarly to consent to participate, an advanced informed consent for publication was obtained in written form from the parents of each sampled schoolchild..
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.