Rasmussen, Sanne
Haastrup, Peter Fentz
Balasubramaniam, Kirubakaran
Elnegaard, Sandra
Christensen, René dePont
Storsveen, Maria Munch
Søndergaard, Jens
Jarbøl, Dorte Ejg
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Region of Southern Denmark
Article History
Received: 13 June 2018
Revised: 7 January 2019
Accepted: 10 January 2019
First Online: 22 February 2019
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The datasets generated and analysed during the current study are not publicly available due to the data protection regulations of the Danish Data Protection, Statistics Denmark and the Danish Health and Medicines Authority. Access to data is strictly limited to the researchers who have obtained permission for data processing. This permission was granted to the Research Unit of General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark.
: The Regional Scientific Ethics Committee for Southern Denmark evaluated the project and concluded that the project was not notifiable and could be implemented without the permission from The Regional Scientific Ethical Committee for Southern Denmark according to Danish law. The Scientific Ethics Committee’s evaluation comprised all aspects of the project including the data collection. Answering the questionnaire was completely voluntary and unpaid. All respondents consented to transmission of information about diagnoses from the Danish national health registries. The participants in the study were clearly informed that there would be no clinical follow-up and that they should contact their own GP in case of concern or worry. The project has been approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency (journal number 2011-41-6651).
: When answering the questionnaire all respondents gave consent to publication of data.
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