Ndarukwa, Pisirai
Chimbari, Moses John
Sibanda, Elopy
Article History
Received: 13 May 2019
Accepted: 16 January 2020
First Online: 4 February 2020
Ethical approval and consent to participate
: We obtained ethics approval to conduct the study from Medical Research Council of Zimbabwe (A/2352) and Biomedical Research Ethics Committee of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (BE613/18). Gatekeepers’ permission was sought from Chitungwiza Hospital as well as Ministry of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe. We also got permission from Prof Juniper to use the copyrighted Asthma Control Questionnaire (ACQ) (see attached Additional file InternalRef removed: Appendix S2) with specific instructions that we could not retype or translate it into local language. Nursing professionals who had knowledge of how to ask these questions to the patients without having to translate the ACQ and retaining the meaning of the questions administered the questionnaire.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.