Simonaggio, Cinzia
Rubini, Elena http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5802-2734
Facci, Giulia http://orcid.org/0009-0004-1335-0293
Castagna, Paola
Canavese, Antonella
Scotti, Lorenza http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3861-9058
Gino, Sarah http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9415-4788
Funding for this research was provided by:
Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogrado
Article History
Received: 20 May 2023
Accepted: 9 February 2024
First Online: 20 February 2024
Declarations
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: The research protocol was organised according to The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans (2013), to the General Data Protection Regulation (2018) and to the Provision no. 146/2019 of the Italian Privacy Guarantor. The study was approved by the Ethic Committee of the “A.O.U. Citt? della Salute e della Scienza di Torino?A.O. Ordine Mauriziano di Torino” (CE 112/2020) on 6 July 2020.
: The consent of the interested parties and their legal representatives was not required for the following reasons: 1. The data minimization process, implemented from the moment of collection pursuant to art. 89 GDPR, leads us to believe that the possibility of identifying the subject to whom the data refers can be considered as minimal and completely residual: the data strictly necessary for the purposes of the research are coded at the source, without links capable of tracing them back to the identity of the interested parties. 2. the processing of data is ?necessary for the conduct of studies carried out with data previously collected for health care purposes or for the execution of previous research projects?, in accordance with the provisions of the Guarantor to the processing of particular categories of data, pursuant to art. 21, paragraph one of the Legislative Decree 10 August 2018, n. 101 (Register of measures no. 146 of 5 June 2019), Annex 1.5 Requirements relating to the processing of personal data carried out for scientific research purposes (aut. Gen. No. 9/2016). 3. with reference to the Provision (at point 5.3) of the Guarantor, the circumstances for which in this study it was not possible to obtain the consent of the interested parties are declared: 4.1. ethical reasons: it becomes problematic to bring people, in particular minors, back to the time of abuse, to remember sexual violence suffered in the past against their will; this could lead to an alteration of the psychological balance achieved over the years. 4.2. reasons for organizational impossibility: survivors could have changed residence or if minor may have been removed from their family of origin, thus making it difficult to find information about their current family or the host community. 4.3. the inability to contact most of the interested parties makes the research impossible or significantly alters the results, in an area that needs to be monitored to provide useful data for the prevention of the phenomenon and for implementing procedure to take care of the survivors.
: The authors declare no conflict of interest for the submitted manuscript.