Leresche, Enrica http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4743-5821
Truppa, Claudia
Martin, Christophe
Marnicio, Ariana
Rossi, Rodolfo
Zmeter, Carla
Harb, Hilda
Hamadeh, Randa Sami
Leaning, Jennifer
Article History
Received: 27 November 2019
Accepted: 5 May 2020
First Online: 13 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval for the primary field study was sought and obtained from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Harvard University and at the national level from the Lebanese MoPH and MoSA. At each site, local authorities, including heads of municipalities and military intelligence, were informed of the objectives and methodology of the study. Teams of interviewers (mainly Lebanese Red Cross volunteers) who underwent 2-day standardized training administered the questionnaire. All interviewers were trained in research ethics principles and instructed to read to all eligible participants an information sheet about the study and to request oral informed consent before proceeding to the interview. All participants in the study provided oral consent to participate, that was recorded through electronic data capture with the software used to collect the interview.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.