Mwaka, Amos Deogratius http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7952-2327
Tusabe, Gervase
Orach Garimoi, Christopher
Vohra, Sunita
Funding for this research was provided by:
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Article History
Received: 4 January 2018
Accepted: 3 December 2018
First Online: 18 December 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study protocol was approved by the Makerere University School of Social Sciences Research and Ethics Committee (MAKSSREC), number 01.17.013. The Committee approved the use of informed verbal consents in FGDs and written informed consents in in-depth interviews. Authority to interact with and interview medical students and lecturers was obtained from the Principal, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University. Each study participant was provided detail information about the study including the study purpose and procedures. The selected lecturers and traditional health practitioners who accepted to participate in the in-depth interviews provided written informed consents before data collection. The medical students were met in their respective FGDs by the research assistants who explained to them the purpose of the study. They were also provided the study information sheet detailing the study objectives and consent procedures. After comprehension, they were requested to each state their acceptance in words. All of them consented and were thereafter allowed to register on a form to participate in the study. All participants were requested for and provided additional verbal permissions to allow audio recording of the interviews/discussions and to use direct quotes from the data.
: Participants gave consent for direct quotes from their interviews to be published in this manuscript.
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