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Authors
Bugge, Carol
Dembinsky, Melanie
Khunda, Aethele
Graham, Margaret
Kearney, Rohna
Goodman, Kirsteen
Melone, Lynn
Guerrero, Karen
Dwyer, Lucy
Hagen, Suzanne
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Health and Care Research (16/82/01)
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Article History
Received: 20 August 2025
Accepted: 25 November 2025
First Online: 5 December 2025
Declarations
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: The study received ethical approval from the West of Scotland Research Ethics Service, West of Scotland REC 3 (17/WS/0267), on 17th February 2018.
: There are no identifiable data within the manuscript. All data presented have been anonymised, and pseudonyms are used after quotations.
: All authors were involved in the NIHR grant on which this manuscript is based (NIHR 16/82/01). Several authors are grant holders on additional grants from NIHR and/or charities. In addition: LD reports membership of the guidelines committee for the NICE guidelines for pelvic floor dysfunction, is a member of the NIHR HTA secondary care prioritisation committee, has received payment from Mediplus Ltd for delivering training on pessary management, is a committee member of the UK pessary guidelines committee; MG is a PPI reviewer for NIHR Health Technology Assessment; RK has received consultancy payments from the British Standards Institute and has a patent; AK has patent pending on a new pessary design (patent application not yet submitted).
