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Testing the effect of an integrated-intervention to promote access to sexual and reproductive healthcare and rights among women with disabilities in Ghana: a quasi-experimental study protocol
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-021-01253-1
Funding for this research was provided by:
THE ROYAL SOCIETY (FLR\R1\201347)
Article History
Received: 7 January 2021
Accepted: 1 October 2021
First Online: 15 October 2021
Declarations
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: The study protocol has been approved by the Ghana Health Service Ethics Review Committee (Protocol Approval NO: GHS-ERC 010/12/20). In addition, administrative approval was sought from various institutions, including the GHS (i.e. district and regional directors of health service and health facility managers).Before each study participant is interviewed, written informed consent will be obtained, including from those aged below 18 years. Parental consent waiver for those aged below 18 years is justified on the following ground. While participants under 18 years are minors in terms of the law in Ghana, issues around sexual and reproductive health (e.g. FP/contraceptive use among adolescents) are subjects that often evoke secrecy and concerns, especially from parents. Therefore, asking for parental consent may expose these minors to other social risks, including parental rebuke and rejection. This could prevent potential minors from participating in the study or opening up and giving accurate information in relation to their sexual behaviours. This could potentially affect the outcome of this research.As part of the consenting proves, the benefits and risks of the study will be communicated to participants. No biological samples will be collected; participants will therefore not be exposed to any biological risks. Also, pparticipants will be informed that their participation in the study will be entirely voluntary, and that they can choose not to participate, withdraw consent at any time, or refuse to answer any question in the process of the interview if they so wish and this will not affect them negatively. All such information will be in a language that is understandable to the participant. Participants will then be asked to sign/thumbprint the informed consent form to confirm their voluntary participation. A copy of the signed consent form will be given to the participant and the other one kept by the research team for future reference.The confidentiality of all study participants will be protected. Participants will not be identified by name in questionnaires or in any reports or publications resulting from data collected in this study. Rather identification (ID) numbers will be assigned to each participant. All computer entry and networking programmes will identify participants with these ID numbers only.
: Participants’ consent will be obtained for their responses to questions asked during the data collection for this research to be published anonymously. All authors have also consented to publication of this manuscript.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.