Huibers, Linda http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5048-3026
Carlsen, Anders H.
Moth, Grete
Christensen, Helle C.
Riddervold, Ingunn S.
Christensen, Morten B.
Funding for this research was provided by:
TrygFonden (7-12-1056)
Article History
Received: 23 May 2019
Accepted: 19 February 2020
First Online: 17 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The project was approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency (J.no. 2011-41-6365) and by the Danish Health Authority (J.no. 3–3013-445/1). The Danish Health Authority approved use of patient contact information of the included settings to send questionnaires, requiring an information letter that explicitly stated the option to decline participation and the option to request removal of all personal information. In addition, the researchers, GPC and MH-1813 chose to add an option to decline participation for patients calling. A recorded message on the telephone waiting line informed patients calling the GPC and MH-1813 about the ongoing research project, and callers were given the opportunity to decline participation by pressing ‘9’. Due to the urgent character of calls and limited telephone waiting time, this was not deemed feasible at EMS.According to Danish law (i.e. the Act on Research Ethics Review of Health Research Projects, Act number 593 of 14 July 2011, section 14(2)) notification of questionnaire surveys and medical database research projects to the system of research ethics committee system is only required if the project involves human biological material. Thus, approval from the Committee on Health Research Ethics was not required as no biomedical intervention was performed in this study.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.