van Rensburg, Lyné
van Zyl, Johann M. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0888-8684
Smith, Johan
Goussard, Pierre
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universiteit Stellenbosch (None)
Article History
Received: 22 February 2019
Accepted: 22 November 2019
First Online: 5 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Ethical Review Committee of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Stellenbosch University (Reference N13/07/099). It was carried out in accordance with the approved research committee guidelines. Prior to obtaining informed consent of patients’ parents, a very user friendly participant information leaflet was dawn up in three languages (Afrikaans, English & Xhosa) and carefully explained to the parents and children before participating in the study. Written informed consent was obtained from all the recruited patients’ parents.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.