González-Formoso, Clara
Clavería, Ana http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9552-1260
Fernández-Domínguez, M.J.
Lago-Deibe, F.L.
Hermida-Rial, Luis
Rial, Antonio
Gude-Sampedro, Francisco
Pita-Fernández, Salvador
Martín-Miguel, Victoria
Funding for this research was provided by:
Galician Health Department, Spain (PS08/43)
Article History
Received: 10 October 2016
Accepted: 28 December 2018
First Online: 18 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The institutional review board (Comité de Ética de Investigación Clínica de Galicia) approved the study (CEIC2008/268). Participants gave written informed consent before taking part.Following the good practices outlined in the Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects of the Declaration of Helsinki by the World Medical Association, it was always the researchers’ responsibility to inform participants and to make clear that this participation was voluntary. All data records were coded before being incorporated into a database to ensure confidentiality, with a secure hosting.
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