Yzermans, C. Joris
Baliatsas, Christos
Van der Velden, Peter G.
Dückers, Michel L. A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Victim Support Fund, The Netherlands
Article History
Received: 25 May 2019
Accepted: 21 January 2020
First Online: 11 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Research at Nivel complies with the Dutch Data Protection Authority and national data protection regulations. Written informed consent was obtained for all participants and confirmed verbally before the interviews were conducted. Prior to providing consent, participants were informed that the interview data would only be reported at an aggregated group level and would not be traceable to individual persons. Biographical data/personal information is therefore not reported in this article. According to the Dutch Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act (WMO) the present study did not require ethical approval. Approval by a medical ethics committee is not obligatory for observational/non-experimental studies that do not involve directly identifiable data (Dutch CivilLaw, Article 7:458).
: Not applicable.
: None declared.