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Bloemhoff, Anneke http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0712-1484
Schoon, Yvonne
Smulders, Kien
Akkermans, Reinier
Vloet, Lilian C. M.
van den Berg, Karin
Berben, Sivera A. A.
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Funding for this research was provided by:
ZonMw (633400015)
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Received: 28 February 2020
Accepted: 14 July 2020
First Online: 20 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This cross-sectional descriptive study was based on data from The Older Persons and Informal Caregivers Survey Minimum Dataset (TOPICS-MDS) repository. This public data repository contains 53 research projects with various study designs, sampling frames and inclusion criteria. Each research project delivered an anonymous minimal dataset based on a standardised baseline measurements and in some studies also follow-up measurements. The included studies of the TOPICS-MDS repository were performed between 2008 and 2016. All respondents provided informed consent according to the original study design. The TOPICS-MDS dataset for this article was fully anonymised, as all the data in the repository are anonymous, and therefore our study was exempted from ethical review under Dutch Law. The research ethics committee of the Radboud University Medical Centre, confirmed that studies using TOPICS-MDS fall outside the remit of the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act (WMO). Therefore, such studies may be carried out in the Netherlands without additional approval by an accredited research ethics committee. Reference number 2012/120.
: The TOPICS-MDS Project Group and Societal Board approved the design and publication of this research project.
: The authors declared to have no competing interest.
