Funding for this research was provided by:
NORAD (under the NORHED-Program, Agreement no. ETH-13/0024)
Article History
Received: 26 April 2017
Accepted: 24 September 2018
First Online: 17 October 2018
Authors’ information
: AA is currently a PH.D student at University of Oslo (Norway), and an acadamic staff at Jimma University, Health Science Collage, Department of Nursing, Jimma/Ethiopia, AG is currently working as researcher and research advisor at Norwegian Center for Minority Health Research, and at the Department of Nursing and Health Promotion, and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway. JS is currently working as research advisor and giving a lecture in department of community Medicine and Global Health, University i Oslo.
: Ethical approval was obtained from the Norwegian National Committee for Research Ethics ref.: 44506/4, and the Local Ethical Committee of Jimma University Research Ethical Board (IRB) Ref.No.HRPGC/244/2015. The Data Protection Official for Research (Norway) and the Institutional Review Board (Jimma/Ethiopia) considered young people (16 and above) can give consent independently. A Formal letter of support was also written to an education bureau to the Somali and Harari regions from Jimma University. After explaining the purpose of the study, we followed the common research ethics principle which includes informed consent, the right to refuse, as well as withdrawal and confidentiality to carry out this study. Accordingly, a written informed consent was signed by the respondents based on their willingness to participate in the study. To ensure confidentiality, names and personal identifiers were not collected from the study participants.
: All study participants were invited to participate in research about pupil’s perspective on FGC among Somali and Harari people. The foregoing information had been read to them. The participants had had the opportunity to ask questions about it and any questions they had been asked had been answered to their satisfaction, and all collected data were made anonymous. They consented voluntarily to be a participant in the study.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests arising from this work.
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