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Received: 20 September 2024

Accepted: 3 March 2025

First Online: 10 March 2025

Declarations

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: The ethical implications of A.I. utilisation in qualitative research were fully considered in this study, particularly concerning data confidentiality and methodological transparency. All analyses were conducted using ephemeral storage settings, ensuring no analysed data were archived. All AI-generated prompts and results were permanently discarded after hardware download to maintain data security. This study is a secondary analysis of anonymised qualitative data collected in a previous research study on the psychosocial impact of cutaneous leishmaniasis scars (Bennis et al., 2017) []. This study is a secondary analysis of anonymised qualitative data collected in a previous research study on the psychosocial impact of cutaneous leishmaniasis scars (Bennis et al., 2017) []. The original study was approved by the Ethical Committee of Biomedical Research in Rabat, Morocco (CERB). No additional ethics approval was required, as this study involved secondary data analysis. The dataset used was fully anonymised, and no new interactions with human participants occurred. The authors acknowledge that Grammarly.com for Microsoft Office Version 6.8.263 was used for language editing assistance, but it was not employed for generating original content.

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: The authors declare no competing interests.