Vargas, Ingrid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1778-2411
Eguiguren, Pamela
Mogollón-Pérez, Amparo-Susana
Samico, Isabella
Bertolotto, Fernando
López-Vázquez, Julieta
Vázquez, María-Luisa
Funding for this research was provided by:
Seventh Framework Programme (305197)
Article History
Received: 16 April 2020
Accepted: 30 September 2020
First Online: 12 October 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: In accordance with the current legislation and regulations in each country, the project has been submitted and approved by the corresponding ethical committees in the countries involved: Clinical Research Ethics Committee, CEIC-Parc de Salut Mar, Spain; Institutional Research Board, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium; Research Ethics Committee, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of El Rosario, Colombia; Ethics Committee for Research on Humans, Institute of Integrative Medicine Prof. Fernando Figueira, Brazil; Bioethics Committee and Southern Metropolitan Health Service Ethics Committee, Chile; Health Services Research Ethics Committee of Veracruz State, Mexico; Ethics Committee, School of Nursing, University of the Republic of Uruguay.Conditions of study procedure, risk and benefit evaluation, confidence and privacy, and informed consent were approved by the ethical committees in the participating countries. In addition, confidentiality agreements were signed with all participating institutions. All interviewees participated on a voluntary basis, after signing an informed consent. The recordings and transcripts were coded in such a way that the individual origin could not be identified, and appropriately stored.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.