Marujo, Helena Á. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4660-2392
Velez, Maria João
Gonçalves, Sónia P.
Neto, Luís Miguel
Krafft, Andreas M.
Casais, Mafalda
Article History
Accepted: 12 July 2021
First Online: 27 July 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Ethical review and approval was not required for the study on human participants in accordance with the local legislation and institutional requirements. The participants provided their written informed consent to participate in this study.We are enclosing herewith a paper entitled “The value of hope: Validation of the Perceived Hope Scale in the Portuguese population” for publication in the Journal Applied Research in Quality of Life. This manuscript has not been published, accepted for publication or under editorial review for publication in another journal.The submitted paper is a research article that describes the validation of an assessment measure of hope in the Portuguese context, in a neutral and unbiased form – the Perceived Hope Scale (PHS). All the scales involved had the full permission of the authors.The manuscript in full has not been submitted or published anywhere an is original.The manuscript will not be submitted elsewhere until the editorial process is completed.No part of the manuscript contains previously published content, so all the authors state the permission to reproduce the material.All the authors involved made substantial contributions to the conception of the work, and the acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data.Authors also state that written informed consent was obtained from the participants of the study while answering the questionnaire.All the authors mentioned in the manuscript have agreed for authorship, read and approved the manuscript, and given consent for submission and subsequent publication of the manuscript.The order of authorship was agreed by all named authors prior to submission.We thereby inform that there are no conflict of interests, the study was anonymous and that all the ethical standards related to this type of study where followed, namely respect third parties rights such as copyright and/or moral rights.