Funding for this research was provided by:
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (439791)
University College London (15107642/2-06)
Article History
Received: 13 December 2019
Accepted: 28 July 2020
First Online: 6 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This research raises ethical challenges regarding violence and working with potentially vulnerable people that experienced violence, therefore ethical considerations and agreements were taken seriously. These considerations included obtaining ethical approval by the UCL Ethics Committee (Project No. 9277/003), ensuring coverage of the project by the UCL Data Protection Registration (Reference No. Z6364106/2018/05/118 social research) and obtaining local permission to conduct the research, which consisted of the ethical approval of the project from a local university (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Project No. DIP/573-18). Participants were explained the purpose of the research and what the data would be used for; asked to sign a consent form before starting the household survey; and the survey only took place if the participant was on their own. Surveys were terminated when participants did not wish to continue and all data was anonymized.
: There are no competing interests that the authors are aware of.