Nkoka, Owen
Mphande, Watanja M.
Ntenda, Peter A. M.
Milanzi, Edith B.
Kanje, Victor
Guo, Shiaau J. G.
Article History
Received: 2 October 2019
Accepted: 10 May 2020
First Online: 15 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Before each interview was conducted, a verbal informed consent was sought by each interviewer reading a prescribed statement to the respondent and recording in the questionnaire whether or not the respondent consented (or provided assent on behalf of minors). Then the interviewer signed his or her name attesting to the fact that he/she read the consent statement to the respondent<i>.</i> The method of collecting consent has been standardized in the DHS survey to ensure consistency as some participants are not able to write. The Malawi’s National Health Sciences Research Committee and the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of ICF Macro, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta approved the protocol for the 2015–2016 MDHS.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.