McCulloch, Louise https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3625-8946
Borthwick, Alan
Redmond, Anthony
Edwards, Katherine
Pinedo‐Villanueva, Rafael
Prieto‐Alhambra, Daniel
Judge, Andrew
Arden, Nigel K.
Bowen, Catherine J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
College of Podiatry, UK
National Institute for Health Research (CDF-2015-08-032)
Article History
Received: 21 March 2018
Accepted: 6 May 2018
First Online: 5 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Full ethical approval was gained (IRAS: 15/SW/0251). All participants provided written informed consent. Governance for the study was approved by the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton Ethics Committee via the ERGO (Ethics and Research Governance Online) online approval system.
: Dr. Alan Borthwick is Editor UK and Prof Catherine Bowen is the Deputy Editor UK of the Journal of Foot and Ankle Research. It is journal policy that editors are removed from the peer review and editorial decision-making processes for papers they have co-authored. The remaining authors declare no conflicts of interest in relation to this work.
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