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Received: 14 March 2019

Accepted: 16 April 2022

First Online: 13 May 2022

Declarations

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: Ethical approval by the Ethics Review Committee, Faculty of Applied Sciences (RUSL), was granted. The interviews followed informed consent guidelines. Consent forms were read and handed out before written and oral consent in Tamil, Sinhala or English. Research runs the risk of forcing hegemonic concepts upon people’s realities. These concepts are often formulated by privileged academics and may not truly meet the subaltern experiences []. External researchers must be careful when using evaluation tools shaped by paradigms foreign to study participants [,]. In the complex socio-political contexts of Health promotion interventions, this is especially important []. As intervention evaluation is political [,], evaluators should be aware of the people’s political agenda []. Despite technical and ethical challenges, such research is needed [,,,,,]. Consent forms were read and handed out before written consent in Tamil, Sinhala or English.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.