Anufriyeva, Valentyna
Pavlova, Milena
Stepurko, Tetiana
Groot, Wim
Article History
Received: 4 April 2022
Accepted: 6 July 2022
First Online: 10 July 2022
Declarations
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: The Ukrainian-Swiss project “Medical Educational Development” developed the online survey and shared the results of the online survey for this publication. Ukraine regulates the clinical and bio-medical research with the relevant legislative documents and requires obligatory obtaining ethical committee approval before the start of the research. We were unable to find the requirement about the necessity to obtain the approval in case of research of non-clinical character. Thus, the decision not to obtain the ethical approval was taken by the Ukrainian-Swiss project “Medical Educational Development”. All participants were fully informed about the purpose of the study, how the findings would be used, whether there were any adverse impacts of their participation and who would have access to the findings. This information was presented in the cover e-mail, which introduced the questionnaire as well as in the opening statement of the online questionnaire:“Dear health care managers,We ask managers of the medical facilities, centers, outpatient clinics, feldsher-midwife stations as well as doctors who are in the reserve list for managerial positions to fill in the online survey “Educational opportunities for health care managers in Ukraine”.In 2018, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) under the funding of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) launched the Medical Education Development project in Ukraine (MED).The project covers all levels of medical education—undergraduate, graduate (internatura), post-graduate and continuous professional development—for family doctors and chiefs of primary health care facilities.Since we are also developing educational products for health care managers, we would appreciate if you fill in the questionnaire on your experience and expectations. We need to understand:UnorderedList removedWe ask you to fill in this survey which will take about 25 min from your side.Within the project we will create educational modules for managers in health care. We will invite those who participated in this survey to take part in one of the planned online seminars.Thank you for your time and answers.”At the beginning of the questionnaire, the participants ticked the box (informed consent) to confirm that they were fully aware of the purpose of the study and further usage of the data. “Being a subject of the personal data I give my consent to the organizers of the survey for the data processing and further usage in the scientific analysis”. Participants were also reminded that they were free to withdraw their participation at any time without any negative impact. No identifying information was made available to any other parties.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.