Axelsson, Malin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5493-8334
Schønning, Viktor
Bockting, Claudi
Buysse, Ann
Desmet, Mattias
Dewaele, Alexis
Giovazolias, Theodoros
Hannon, Dewi
Kafetsios, Konstantinos
Meganck, Reitske
Ntani, Spyridoula
Rutten, Kris
Triliva, Sofia
Van Beveren, Laura
Vandamme, Joke
Øverland, Simon
Hensing, Gunnel
Funding for this research was provided by:
European Parliament (Pilot Project Grant PP-2-2016, Topic: PP-2-2-2016)
Article History
Received: 18 September 2019
Accepted: 22 June 2020
First Online: 1 July 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approvals were granted from the Review Boards at Ghent University in Belgium, the University of Crete in Greece (Επι.Δ.Ε. i.e. Ethical Committee, 6/2018/16-05-2018) and the Regional Ethical Review board in Gothenburg in Sweden (474–18). In Cyprus, the Mental Health Services of the Ministry of Health gave permission to conduct the study (4.2.09.37/7). In the Netherlands, an application was sent to the Medical Ethical Committee of Academic Medical Hospital of the University of Amsterdam and an exemption was given as all subjects were healthy and non-invasive procedures were used (no number was given due to the exemption). The Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics in Norway found the project outside the realm of medical ethics assessment. Therefore, an assessment and approval from a data protection officer at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health was collected. Following written and verbal information about the study, all participants signed an informed consent before the focus group interviews started.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests<b>.</b>