Sinclair, Piriyah http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3631-9323
Vijgen, Guy H. E. J.
Aarts, Edo O.
Van Nieuwenhove, Yves
Maleckas, Almantas
Funding for this research was provided by:
University College Dublin
Article History
Received: 23 November 2020
Revised: 22 July 2021
Accepted: 23 July 2021
First Online: 10 September 2021
Declarations
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: Ethical approval for this study was given by the ethics committee of the Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, the Netherlands in July 2016. It was registered on clinicaltrials.gov under number NCT03105050. No patients were directly involved in this study. 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.
: Informed consent does not apply. Although implied consent was given by all participants who filled in the questionnaire.
: Piriyah Sinclair, Guy H. E. J. Vijgen, Edo O. Aarts, Yves Van Nieuwenhove and Almantas Maleckas have no conflicts of interest. This study was part of a project of the European Obesity Academy, which is sponsored by Ethicon.