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Article History

Received: 29 July 2020

Accepted: 25 January 2021

First Online: 15 February 2021

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Human research ethics approval was obtained from St Vincent’s Health and Aged Care Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC 17/25) and administrative review approval was obtained from the Queensland University of Technology Human Research Ethics Committee. Participants were given verbal and written information about the study and provided with a survey. Verbal and implied consent was obtained from all participants. Patients interested in participating did so by voluntarily and anonymously completing the survey and returning it to the research team via collection boxes. This form of informed consent was used because of the low-risk nature of the study, to reduce time pressures in participation, and to ensure participant anonymity. A waiver of written consent was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee and met national regulations (i.e., the <i>National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2007)</i> (National Statement (2007)).

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.