PMC:4144696 / 4945-6160 JSONTXT

{"target":"https://pubannotation.org/docs/sourcedb/PMC/sourceid/4144696","sourcedb":"PMC","sourceid":"4144696","source_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/4144696","text":"Ethics\nThe Nepal Health Research Council, the Institutional Review Committee of Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel Hospital (IRC-KUSMS), and The Central Regional Committee for Health and Research Ethics in Norway all approved the study protocol.\nProspective participants who could do so read the written information approved by the ethics committees describing the nature and purpose of the study; to those who were illiterate, the interviewers read the information in the presence of family members. All had opportunity to ask questions. Before interviews commenced, consent was given in writing when possible but otherwise by fingerprint in accordance with requirements of IRC-KUSMS. All participants knew they were free to discontinue their interviews at any time.\nPersonal identification details of participants were separated from the completed questionnaires and stored in a locked room in the Department of Epidemiology at the Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences. No information relating to identifiable individuals was disseminated beyond the researchers immediately involved in the study. All data were protected in accordance with Norwegian data-protection legislation.","divisions":[{"label":"title","span":{"begin":0,"end":6}},{"label":"p","span":{"begin":7,"end":269}},{"label":"p","span":{"begin":270,"end":791}}],"tracks":[]}