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Article History

Received: 21 December 2020

Accepted: 13 December 2021

First Online: 14 January 2022

Declarations

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: This research was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki for Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects. The study protocol underwent full external peer review from a scientific panel at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) as part of funding, as well as additional protocol reviews by NCCIH and an independent Data and Safety Monitoring Committee (DSMC) before trial launch. Ethical approval for the COCOV Clinical Trial was granted by the Palmer College of Chiropractic IRB (2017G180, May 25, 2017), The University of Iowa IRB-03 VA Only (201706802, June 22, 2017), and VA Connecticut Health System IRB (02193, February 1, 2018). All participants provided written informed consent to participate in the clinical trial, including the qualitative interview. Participants additional provided verbal consent for the audiorecording process before the interview. VA patients also signed a document, the Department of Veterans Affairs <i>Authorization for Use and Release of Individually Identifiable Health Information Collected for VHA Research</i> (VA Form 10-0493, Sept. 2015)<i>,</i> to permit the use of the audiorecorded interviews for research purposes.

: Not applicable.

: Stacie A. Salsbury, Elissa Twist, Robert B. Wallace, Robert D. Vining, Christine M. Goertz, and Cynthia R. Long have no competing interests.