Funding for this research was provided by:
Austrian MS Research Society (no grant number)
Article History
Received: 29 June 2017
Accepted: 31 January 2018
First Online: 2 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Tier 2 College Research Ethics Committee (CREC) of the University of Brighton on 17 December 2015 (no reference number) and the Ethics Committee of the Medical University of Innsbruck on 26 February 2016 (reference number AN2014–0052 334/4.14358/5.13 (3743a)). All participants provided written informed consent to the participant consent form and were reimbursed for travel expenses only.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. As this is part of a PhD study, all intellectual property related to this study belongs to the University of Brighton, according to the University of Brighton’s Doctoral College (2012) research code of practice.
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