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Guruge, Najith Duminda Galmangoda http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9342-5424
Arhelger, Adam
Abhayasinghe, Kalpani
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Received: 14 March 2019
Accepted: 16 April 2022
First Online: 13 May 2022
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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 [CitationRef removed]. External researchers must be careful when using evaluation tools shaped by paradigms foreign to study participants [CitationRef removed, CitationRef removed]. In the complex socio-political contexts of Health promotion interventions, this is especially important [CitationRef removed]. As intervention evaluation is political [CitationRef removed, CitationRef removed], evaluators should be aware of the people’s political agenda [CitationRef removed]. Despite technical and ethical challenges, such research is needed [CitationRef removed, CitationRef removed, CitationRef removed, CitationRef removed, CitationRef removed, CitationRef removed]. 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.
