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Erratum: Randomized controlled trial on drowning prevention for parents with children aged below five years in Bangladesh: a study protocol

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After publication of our article [1], it was brought to our attention that we had omitted to acknowledge that parts of the text were directly reproduced from the “Global report on drowning: preventing a leading killer” by the World Health Organization [2] cited as reference 14 in the article and from “Efficacy of a text messaging (SMS) based smoking cessation intervention for adolescents and young adults: Study protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial” by Haug et al. [3]. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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  1. Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

    Mosharaf Hossain, Kulanthayan K. C. Mani & K. S. Hayati

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

    Sherina Mohd Sidik

  3. Department of Epidemiology, Bangladesh University of Health Sciences, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    AKM Fazlur Rahman

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Hossain, M., Mani, K.K.C., Sidik, S.M. et al. Erratum: Randomized controlled trial on drowning prevention for parents with children aged below five years in Bangladesh: a study protocol. BMC Public Health 15, 898 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2169-4

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