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Article History

Received: 8 April 2024

Accepted: 30 April 2024

First Online: 21 May 2024

Declarations

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: This research is conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Initial ethics clearance for this study has been already granted by the McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Institutional Review Board (#A07-E29-22B), as well as the ethics committees of the University of Ottawa (H-07-23-9482) and the Ottawa Bruyère’s Research Institute (M16-22-045). Annual renewal of these ethic certificates will be obtained over the whole research period. Complete confidentially and anonymity of individuals who participate in the project is guaranteed. Publications of the results of the project will be anonymized. At the end of the study, all the audio recordings will be destroyed. Only those who voluntarily and formally agree to participate will be interviewed. Consent forms will be completed in each intervention. All the information will be used for academic purposes only. Only investigators and research staff will have access to primary data. All publications of the results will be presented in an anonymous manner for individual participants. Interim and final reports will be available to all participants. Individuals will be able to withdraw from the project at any point during the study, without negative consequences to themselves.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.