Oakley, Robert https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6329-8658
Al-Mahdi, Sarraa
Guntschnig, Sonja
Trinh, Ha
Custodio, Marco
Korshid, Sarah
Gous, Andries
Lonsdale, Dagan O.
Article History
Accepted: 13 November 2023
First Online: 20 December 2023
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Institutional ethical approval for the study was obtained from St George’s, University of London (SGUL) Research Ethics Committee reference no. 2023.0125, which included a data protection impact assessment.
: Participants provided informed written consent to participate and for their personal information to be stored securely on the SGUL electronic server before deletion upon study completion. Written consent was provided by email return of a digitally completed or a scanned manually completed consent form.
: Participants provided informed written consent for the research team to publish anonymous quotes and analysis of their descriptions in response to interview questions.
: Robert Oakley, Sarraa Al-Mahdi, Sonja Guntschnig, Ha Trinh, Marco Custodio, Sarah Korshid, Andries Gous, and Dagan O Lonsdale declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All reported studies/experiments with human or animal subjects performed by the authors have been previously published and complied with all applicable ethical standards (including the Helsinki declaration and its amendments, institutional/national research committee standards and international/national/institutional guidelines).