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Article History

Received: 14 January 2021

Accepted: 30 December 2021

First Online: 6 March 2022

Declarations

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: Aalto University Research Ethics Committee has carried out an ethical evaluation concerning the personal data acquisition of the current research project “Development of method for interpretation of health expressions based on machine learning to support various care events and persons” (DIHEML, in Finnish ”Koneoppimista hyödyntävän menetelmän kehittäminen terveyttä koskevien ilmaisujen tulkitsemiseksi tukemaan erilaisia hoitotilanteita ja henkilöitä”, see Lahti, 2017; Lahti, 2018) and has given a supporting ethical statement for it on 18 June 2019. The current research was approved by Aalto University Research Ethics Committee. DIHEML research project addresses the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union in handling the research data. An informed consent was obtained via the online questionnaire at the Finnish web server of our DIHEML research project (ExternalRef removed) from all individual persons participating in the data acquisition and regarding publishing their anonymized data sets. When accessing the online questionnaire, the person was informed that only persons who are at least 16 years old are allowed to participate. Furthermore, to address the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union a privacy notice about the research was shown to the person and he/she was asked to give an approval for handling his/her data.

: Not applicable.

: The author declares that he has no competing interests.