Article History
First Online: 1 February 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: All authors declare that he/she has no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Approval of the Ethics Committee at Maastricht University was obtained before the start of the study.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. The participants were recruited through intermediaries of associations that support people who are diagnosed with an ID and sexologists who work with people with ID. These intermediaries, sexologists and the researchers explained the research to potential participants. All participants received a leaflet containing information about the research: our research goals, the questions addressed in our research, as well as information about confidentiality and support. Participants were asked to contact the researchers themselves if they wanted to participate in the research. All participants were adults.