Romano, Virginia
Ancillotti, Mirko http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5748-0672
Mascalzoni, Deborah
Biasiotto, Roberta
Article History
Received: 25 April 2022
Accepted: 14 September 2022
First Online: 30 September 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: In Italy, there is currently no law that establishes institutional review and ethical approval in the field of social sciences. Additionally, no law describes review and approval exemptions. As regulated by the Ministerial decree of 18 March 1998 and Law of 11 January 2018, no. 3, only clinical research is subjected to ethics evaluation. Therefore, our research was not subjected to any review nor ethical approval and did not obtain a waiver from an institutional review board, because in Italy there is no legal requirement to do so. All the standards for research were respected and informed by the code of conduct for professional sociologistsFootnote removed. The study was conducted according to the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki and in accordance with relevant guidelines/regulations.
: Before the interviews began, the research objectives were explained to the participants, who were informed that participation was voluntary and that they could interrupt the interview or quit at any time. Participants provided their informed verbal consent. To protect participants’ confidentiality, transcripts were pseudonymized.