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Slåtten, Terje
Mutonyi, Barbara Rebecca
Lien, Gudbrand
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Article History
Received: 22 June 2020
Accepted: 22 November 2020
First Online: 27 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) (project number 239029). The NSD is a resource centre and ethics committee for academic research in Norway. In addition, the ethics committee, the Data Protection Official (DPO) at Inlandet Hospital Trust, approved the study as well as the procedure for implied consent (ref nr. 126,325). In accordance with the Personal Data Act §§2–7 and 8 no. 1, the participants were given written information, through email. For the reason that the DPO approved the study and its procedure, participants were provided information about the project and individually had to give consent by “click Next to participate” prior to starting the online questionnaire. As such, consent was a mandatory action prior to the commencement of the online questionnaire.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
