Coffey, Taylor
Duncan, Eilidh
Morgan, Heather
Gillies, Katie
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Research Council (MR/S014357/1, MR/S014357/1)
Chief Scientist Office, Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorate (CZU/3/3, CZU/3/3)
Article History
Received: 25 March 2022
Accepted: 10 August 2022
First Online: 25 August 2022
Declarations
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: Participants taking part in the interviews were consented via an informed verbal consent script (approved by North of Scotland Research Ethics Service (NoSRES) Committee (ref: 17/NS/0086) and the University of Aberdeen College Ethics Review Board (CERB) (Application No. 2007, Title: CERB/2020/12/2007)). The recordings were not started until the participant first gave permission to the interviewer to start that recording. These recordings were then sent via secure file transfer to an external transcription service contracted by the study team. Transcripts were generated, participant identifiers removed, and returned to the study team via secure file transfer. The study team then went through an additional deidentification of the transcripts to remove trial names, places of employment, etc. Both identifiable and de-identified data, in the form of recordings and transcripts and their associated meta-data, were stored on secure University of Aberdeen servers and only accessible to members of the study team.The study that generated data for interview set one was granted ethical approval by the North of Scotland Research Ethics Service (NoSRES) Committee (ref: 17/NS/0086). The study that generated data for interview set two was approved by the University of Aberdeen College Ethics Review Board (CERB) (Application No. 2007, Title: CERB/2020/12/2007) on 17/02/2021. Approval by host trial steering committees was also confirmed and records of those communications stored for posterity. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.
: This paper does not contain any individual person’s data in any form as they have been appropriately anonymised.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.