Funding for this research was provided by:
Kuwait Ministry of Health
Article History
Received: 2 March 2019
Accepted: 9 August 2019
First Online: 9 October 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the University of Manchester Research Ethics Committee (UREC)–Project Number: 2017–1086-3939, and permissions to conduct research at the Bahraini and Kuwaiti DRAs was obtained from each authority. All participants gave informed consent, each participant was assigned a unique code, and anonymity was maintained at all times during the research process.
: Not applicable.
: This is an independent research undertaken as part of a PhD, and the authors were not asked nor commissioned to inform a herbal medicine registration system for the Kuwaiti drug regulatory authority (DRA). However, it is projected that the recommendations generated from this research will be proposed to the Kuwaiti DRA for consideration.