Bain, Luchuo Engelbert
Aboagye, Richard Gyan
Dowou, Robert Kokou
Kongnyuy, Eugene Justine
Memiah, Peter
Amu, Hubert
Article History
Received: 9 June 2021
Accepted: 21 March 2022
First Online: 5 April 2022
Declarations
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: Ethical permission was not sought for the present study since the DHS datasets used are publicly available. However, the DHS reports that ethical clearances were obtained from the Ethics Committee of ORC Macro Inc. as well as Ethics Boards of partner organisations of the various countries such as the Ministries of Health. The DHS follows the standards for ensuring the protection of respondents’ privacy. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable. Since the study used secondary data, it was not applicable for us to contact the participants directly for their consent before publishing our work. Consent entire was obtained from particpants in the original DHS survey whose data we only picked and worked on.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interest.