Watson, Helena A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7443-0033
Carlisle, Naomi
Kuhrt, Katy
Tribe, Rachel M.
Carter, Jenny
Seed, Paul
Shennan, Andrew H.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity
Tommy’s
Article History
Received: 6 July 2018
Accepted: 31 January 2019
First Online: 13 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: EQUIPTT was granted a favourable ethical opinion (REC reference 17/LO/1802) by the London Bridge Research Ethics Committee on 21 November 2017.For the cluster trial, individual consent was not applicable; however consent was obtained for each study site. In the women’s experiences (EQUIPTT-Q) part of the study, participants will be approached individually by the local research teams for inclusion, information leaflet provided and informed consent obtained. If appropriate, they will be given verbal and written information about the questionnaire and given the opportunity to ask questions. If they are happy to proceed they will be asked to sign a consent form and to indicate if they would be happy to be contacted, at a later date, should they be selected for interview. Those that are selected will be given an additional information sheet and asked to sign another consent form prior to the interview taking place.
: Not applicable.
: In the last 3 years, AS has been a consultant for GSK (unpaid) and UK CI for a tocolytic study, funds paid to institution. He has advised Hologic and Medix biochemica on clinical studies (unpaid). AS is a consultant to Owen Mumford, unrelated to the topic of this paper. NC received financial assistance to cover expenses, paid to institute, to provide an educational talk on preterm birth from Hologic, USA. The other authors did not report any potential conflicts of interest.
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