Amarakoon, Pamod Madusanka
Gundersen, Ragnhild Bassøe
Muhire, Andrew
Utvik, Vetle Alvenes
Braa, Jørn
Funding for this research was provided by:
Norges Forskningsråd
University of Oslo
Article History
Received: 10 February 2023
Accepted: 27 October 2023
First Online: 18 December 2023
Declarations
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: Ethics approval has been granted for the study from both the Ethics Review Committee of Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo Sri Lanka and the Norwegian Centre for Scientific Data. Informed consent has been obtained from all participants of the study. We confirm that all interventions including data collection were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations (such as the Declaration of Helsinki).The Norwegian research project was approved by the Norwegian Centre for Scientific Data, now labeled Sikt (ExternalRef removed) in October 2020. The approval process includes a project description with a start- and end date, the reason behind the project, where it is conducted, type of data collection, type of interviewees, type of personal data that is collected and how these are processed, and who have access to the data. A consent form approved by Sikt has been sent to and signed by all interviewees prior to interview or observation, giving the interviewees the chance to pull out of the project as well as demand that all personal information about them is deleted.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.