Richter, Melanie S.
O’Reilly, Ken
O’Sullivan, Danny
O’Flynn, Padraic
Corvin, Aiden
Donohoe, Gary
Coyle, Ciaran
Davoren, Mary
Higgins, Caroline
Byrne, Orla
Nutley, Tina
Nulty, Andrea
Sharma, Kapil
O’Connell, Paul
Kennedy, Harry G. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3174-3272
Article History
Received: 23 December 2017
Accepted: 27 August 2018
First Online: 8 September 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Research Ethics and Effectiveness Committee of the NFMHS CMH approved the study in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. All subjects gave written informed consent prior to participating and were assessed as having the functional mental capacity to do so and did so voluntarily. This study did not make new demands on patients: they needed only to consent to the use of their data in research. The most important ethical issues were understanding of the proposed use of their data and given that all were detained initially, their voluntariness. No data that could identify any individual is published.
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