Aarva, Pauliina
Väänänen, Tiina
Pyykkönen, Maija
Kankkunen, Tiia-Tuulia
Article History
Received: 24 February 2024
Accepted: 10 September 2024
First Online: 19 September 2024
Declarations
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: The study was conducted in adherence to the Declaration of Helsinki. An informed consent to participate in the survey was obtained from each respondent. Participants were appropriately informed about the survey, and the content and purpose of the study were explained to participants. Participation was voluntary. Thus, completing the questionnaire was considered as informed consent for participation. This survey collected no personal data that would allow to identify individual participants. This study does not cause any potential risks or harm to survey respondents, and it meets the ethical requirements of research with human participants according to The Finnish National Board on Research Integrity guidelines []. The ethical approval was deemed unnecessary by the Academic Ethics Committee of the Tampere region. According to a statement from the Academic Ethics Committee of the Tampere region, Finnish legislation and above-mentioned guidelines ethical approval is not required for surveys that do not collect personal data which could be directly or indirectly used to identify a person or persons, taking into account the means that are reasonably likely to used to do so. According to these guidelines and the statement from the Academic Ethics Committee of the Tampere region the researcher must request an ethical review statement from a human sciences ethics committee, if their research contains any of the following: (a) Participation in the research deviates from the principle of informed consent (the participation is not voluntary or the participants are not given sufficient or correct information about the research), (b) the research involves intervening in the physical integrity of research participants, (c) the focus of the research is on minors under the age of 15, without separate consent from a parent or carer or without informing a parent or carer in a way that would enable them to prevent the child’s participation in the research, (d) research that exposes participants to exceptionally strong stimuli, (e) research that involves a risk of causing mental harm that exceeds the limits of normal daily life to the research participants or their family members or others closest to them or (f) conducting the research could involve a threat to the safety of participants or researchers or their family members or others closest to them . Our research does not contain any of the aforementioned factors, and thus it meets the ethical requirements of research with human participants in Finland.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.