Lacey, Gerard https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1923-6852
Gozdzielewska, Lucyna https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5769-1530
McAloney-Kocaman, Kareena https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4561-9619
Ruttle, Jonathan
Cronin, Sean https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8718-9528
Price, Lesley https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5678-4818
Funding for this research was provided by:
National University of Ireland Maynooth
Article History
Received: 12 May 2021
Accepted: 19 September 2021
First Online: 11 October 2021
Declarations
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: All staff and doctoral students from the University’s Schools of Health & Life Sciences were invited to participate in the study by email communication, including a full description of the study in the form of a participant information sheet. Participation was voluntary, but those with planned leave during the study period were excluded. Ethical approval was obtained from the Department of Nursing and Community Health Ethics Committee (HLS/NCH/17039), while access permissions were sought from the Dean of the School. Before participation, written consent was sought from all participants. For the study, each participant was randomly assigned an individual login and password for accessing the app. All data collected was identifiable only by the participants’ login details so was fully anonymised.
: GL, SC and JR were employees of SureWash during the development of this study. GL is an employee, and SC is a PhD student at Trinity College Dublin. GCU staff (LG, KMc-K, LP) independently evaluated the mobile AR app.