Badawy, Abeer
Solberg, Mads
Obstfelder, Aud Uhlen
Alnes, Rigmor Einang
Funding for this research was provided by:
NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Article History
Received: 9 November 2022
Accepted: 3 March 2023
First Online: 6 April 2023
Declarations
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: The study was first submitted to the Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics, and it was decided that it was outside their mandate due to the fact that the study has the character of being a different type of research than medical and healthcare research. Furthermore, the Data Protection Official for Research at Norwegian Centre for Research Data (NSD) - currently called Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (SiKt) - approved this study, with reference number 108323. Written informed consent and verbal recorded consent were obtained from all individual participants included in the study based on adequate information provided by the authors according to the Norwegian Personal Data Act. Participation in this study was confirmed to be voluntary, and participants could leave the project at any time. All data in the study have been anonymized. All methods were carried out in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration.
: Participants in this study gave their informed consent to be interviewed, and the anonymized data of the individual interviews and results can be used for scientific publication. Participants gave informed consent for publication. Participants gave informed consent for publishing the data in open access journal. The photographer of the pictures shown in Fig. InternalRef removed gave informed consent and permission to use the pictures in scientific publications.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.