Voetmann, Sara Stage
Ejg Jarbøl, Dorte
Søndergaard, Jens
Viftrup, Dorte Toudal
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Southern Denmark
Article History
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 21 July 2025
First Online: 30 September 2025
Declarations
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: The study complies with the Declaration of Helsinki II’s ethical principles for research involving humans []. According to the Danish Act of Committees, health scientific interview studies do not require reporting to or approval by the Scientific Ethics Committee []. The study was registered retrospectively to SDU Research & Innovation Organisation (SDU RIO) and granted permission to commence the processing of the personal data with notification number 11,500, in accordance with the Data Protection Act §10 [], on October 5. All written materials concerning information about the study, the legal status of the participants, and the processing and storage of data were reviewed and approved by the lawyers at SDU RIO before being distributed. The participants and their parents received both oral and written information about the purpose of the study, and they all gave their oral consent to participate and for the interviews to be audio recorded digitally. The participants were informed of the opportunity to withdraw their consent to participate, which entails that the researchers would not collect new data on the participant but were still allowed to use the data already possessed []. None of the participants withdrew their consent.
: Consent for participation and publication was obtained from all participants and, if necessary, their parents, in accordance with The Data Protection Act §10 [] and The General Data Protection Regulation art. 6, stk. 1, litra e [].
: The authors declare no competing interests.