Ntenda, Peter A. M.
Chirambo, Angeziwa C.
Nkoka, Owen
El-Meidany, Walaa M.
Goupeyou-Youmsi, Jessy
Article History
Received: 5 May 2022
Accepted: 17 September 2022
First Online: 1 October 2022
Declarations
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: A permission was obtained from the Monitoring and Evaluation to Assess and Use Results Demographic and Health Surveys (MEASURE) and/or the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) program for the use MNS 2015–16 datasets before the primary purpose. The MNS survey protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of ICF Macro and the Malawi National Health Sciences Research Committee (NHSRC). The survey was implemented by the National Statistics Office, the Community Health Sciences Unit of the Ministry of Health, Department of Nutrition, HIV, and AIDS, and jointly with the 2015–16 MDHS. Informed consent for MNS took place at several levels. Firstly, community leaders from each cluster were informed regarding the MDHS and MNS, and communal consent was sought prior to the arrival of the MDHS teams. Secondly, the MDHS enumerators asked each MNS-eligible household for permission to participate in the MNS where consent for each household was documented on the MNS paper-based questionnaires. Finally, the paper-based questionnaires were then handed over to the MNS team, of which the nurse asked for an informed consent from each individual for anthropometry measurements and biological samples.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.