Conroy, Mervyn
Malik, Aisha Y. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1751-2806
Hale, Catherine
Weir, Catherine
Brockie, Alan
Turner, Chris
Funding for this research was provided by:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/M006646/1)
Article History
Received: 14 December 2019
Accepted: 31 January 2021
First Online: 18 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The ethics approval for this project was sought at the outset, before data collection commenced, from the University of Birmingham (Application No. ERN_15-0172) and it was approved by the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Ethical Review Committee on 28th September 2015. Ethics approval was also sought from the University of Nottingham, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences REC (Ref. No: L13102015 SoM Birm ERN_15-0172), the University of Warwick, Biomedical and Scientific REC (BRSC Ref: REGO 2015-1720) and Ministry of Defence REC (MODREC). Approval was given on 25th October 2015 and 4th November 2015 from the Universities of Nottingham and Warwick, respectively. Approval was given by MODREC on 4th May 2016 (Reference Number: 724/MODREC/16). Ethics approval was also obtained before commencing observations in the second phase of data collection from the Health Research Authority (IRAS Project I.D. 227550). Approval was given on 8th August 2017 (REC Reference: 18/HRA/0203). Written consent to participate in this study was obtained from all participants before commencing interviews and observations.
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: The authors declare they have no competing interests.