Reeve, Joanne http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3184-7955
Britten, Nicky
Byng, Richard
Fleming, Jo
Heaton, Janet
Krska, Janet
Article History
Received: 21 March 2017
Accepted: 26 December 2017
First Online: 15 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Our study was performed in accordance with the principles described in the Declaration of Helsinki. Ethical approval for our study was granted by Warwick Medical School BSREC REGO-2016-1749). The survey instrument (Additional fileInternalRef removed) informed potential participants that completion was voluntary, responses were anonymous and people could leave the survey at any point without their data being saved. Continued participation constituted consent to use anonymised data in the further development of this work.
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