Balami, Ahmed Dahiru
Said, Salmiah Md.
Zulkefli, Nor’afiah Mohd
Bachok, Norsa’adah
Audu, Bala Muhammad
Article History
Received: 25 June 2019
Accepted: 11 March 2020
First Online: 24 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was obtained to carry out the research, from the Ethics Committee for Research Involving Human Subjects of the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) (UPM/TNCPI/RMC/1.4.18.2 (JKEUPM). Permission was also obtained from the Ethics Committee of the State Specialist Hospital, Maiduguri (SSH/GEN/64/Vol.1). All the respondents were first taken through the respondent’s information sheet in Hausa language, after which informed verbal consent was obtained from them. This was due to the low literacy rates in the study location, and it had been approved by the JKEUPM.
: Not Applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.