Mthombeni, Tiyani Comfort
Burger, Johanita Riétte http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1740-5675
Lubbe, Martha Susanna
Julyan, Marlene
Funding for this research was provided by:
North-West University
Article History
Received: 19 October 2023
Accepted: 28 January 2024
First Online: 1 February 2024
Declarations
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: Ethical approval of the study was obtained from the North-West University Health Research Ethics Committee (NWU-00312-20-A1). The Head of the Limpopo Department of Health (LP-202003-012) granted data collection access permission. All methods were performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The data collection was an online questionnaire facilitated by an independent source from North-West University; therefore, the researchers did not know which individuals responded. All respondents provided online informed consent to participate by clicking on a designated tab attached to the questionnaire, indicating their agreement to the informed consent terms, and thereafter accessing the survey online pages. All the data collected remain anonymous as the research project did not collect identifying information of individual respondents (name, surname, internet protocol address, e-mail address and contact details).
: Not applicable.
: TM works as an administrator at the central office of the Limpopo Department of Health and is not a practicing health professional at any of the hospitals. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.