Pitter, János G.
Zemplényi, Antal
Babarczy, Balázs
Németh, Bertalan
Kaló, Zoltán
Vokó, Zoltán http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1004-1848
Funding for this research was provided by:
Innovative Medicines Initiative (806776, 806776, 806776, 806776, 806776, 806776)
Semmelweis University
Article History
Received: 17 August 2023
Accepted: 9 October 2023
First Online: 19 October 2023
Declarations
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: The SHARE study is subject to continuous ethics review. During Waves 1 to 4, SHARE was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Mannheim. Wave 4 and the continuation of the project were reviewed and approved by the Ethics Council of the Max Planck Society. In addition, the country implementations of SHARE were reviewed and approved by the respective ethics committees or institutional review boards whenever this was required. The numerous reviews covered all aspects of the SHARE study, including sub-projects and confirmed the project to be compliant with the relevant legal norms and that the project and its procedures agree with international ethical standards. Accordingly, informed consent from each invited participant and/or their legal guardian(s) was a pre-requisite of SHARE survey participation. For a recent summary of ethical approvals, please see the Opinion of the Ethics Council of Max Planck Society on the “SHARE” project at ExternalRef removed ethics_approvals.pdf, dated June 8th 2021. No primary data collection was conducted, and no personal data was accessed by the Authors in the retrospective analysis of anonymized SHARE datasets. Based on national legislation, our secondary analysis of previously collected and anonymized datasets was not classified as non-interventional human medical research and was exempt from review and approval of experimental protocols by a named institutional and/or licensing committee. For the same reason, collecting copies of signed informed consent forms to participation from survey participants of SHARE data collection was not applicable during the secondary analysis of anonymized SHARE datasets.
: The authors declare no competing interests.