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Article History

Received: 20 November 2018

Accepted: 31 October 2019

First Online: 27 November 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethics approval for the study was granted by the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System Institutional Review Board and Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System Institutional Review Board. The IRB at both institutions approved the study procedures, including a waiver of written informed consent. We provided a verbal informed consent script, which we read to each potential particpiant, which covered the critical elements of informed consent. The following verbal consent statement was provided to participants, “Do you consent to be audio recorderd during this interview? Are you comfortable in continuing with the research, which will include a few brief questions about yourself and your role in VA, up to 20 minutes to review the draft intervention to give you a sense of the intervention and a semi-structured interview?” If particpants said yes, study staff initiated the audio recording, and then asked the question again,” do you consent to be audio recorded during this interview?” and then proceeded with the interview.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.