Huda, Tanvir M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8996-4361
Alam, Ashraful http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7034-1095
Tahsina, Tazeen http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5899-8422
Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0630-290X
Iqbal, Afrin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1859-8405
Khan, Jasmin http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2022-6448
Ara, Gulshan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3745-5952
Ali, Nazia Binte http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5010-9563
Al Amin, Saad Ullah http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7450-6483
Kirkwood, Elizabeth K. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8603-4903
Laba, Tracey-Lea http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5182-9092
Goodwin, Nicholas http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2476-6310
Muthayya, Sumithra http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1645-9206
Islam, Munirul http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8780-8760
Agho, Kingsley Emwinyore http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4111-3207
Hoddinott, John http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0590-3917
El Arifeen, Shams http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5372-5932
Dibley, Michael J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1554-5180
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Health and Medical Research Council (APP1120507)
Article History
Received: 3 September 2020
Accepted: 26 October 2020
First Online: 25 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Ethical Review Committee (ERC) of the icddr,b, and the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) of University of Sydney have granted ethics approval for this study. Any amendment to the protocol will be communicated to both the ERC. We will seek gatekeeper consent [CitationRef removed] from local governments before we allocate clusters to treatment groups. We will obtain written informed consent from each study participant, which will be in Bangla. We will also obtain informed consent from a parent or guardian for participants under 16 years old. The consent form will provide full disclosure regarding the study, from pregnant women during enrolment into the study. We will inform the women that they can drop out at any time without any penalty or loss of any benefits from the programme. We will strictly maintain the privacy, anonymity and confidentiality of the information provided by respondents. We will store all trial information in an encrypted database with all identifiers removed. Only associated investigators and data management team will have access to collected data. Auditing trial conduct will be done as per icddrb rules. We will publish the trial findings in peer-reviewed journals towards the end of the study. We have registered the trial in the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12618001975280).
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: The authors declare that they do not have any competing interest.