Löfström, E. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0838-9626
Pitkänen, H. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0955-5216
Čekanauskaitė, A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6789-8607
Lukaševičienė, V.
Kyllönen, S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6725-3673
Gefenas, E. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5004-3322
Funding for this research was provided by:
H2020 Society (710184)
University of Helsinki
Article History
Accepted: 29 February 2024
First Online: 4 April 2024
Declarations
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: We aligned our practice along the guidelines of the institution having the main responsibility for the research. Data handling (including anonymisation) and storage took place in the PI’s institution. In Finland, an ethics review for non-medical research involving humans is required when the study involves intervention in the physical integrity of research participants; deviates from the principle of informed consent; involves participants under the age of 15 being studied without parental consent; exposes participants to exceptionally strong stimuli; risks causing long-term mental harm beyond that encountered in normal life; or entails a security risk to the participant or other individuals (Finnish National Board on Research Integrity, CitationRef removed). None of the conditions that would require an ethics review in Finland materialised in this study. At the time of data collection, also Lithuanian (the other country in which researchers included in the team were working in) ethics regulation was such that an ethics review would not have been required for this kind of non-medical research with healthy volunteer adults.
: Research participation was based on voluntariness and fully informed consent.
: Five of the authors took part in the organization of the training sessions during which data were collected. The data collection reported here neither involves evaluation of the training and as such, was not targeted on the organisers’ or trainers’ actions, nor did it involve evaluation of the participants’ competence or learning during the training.