Pols, Alide D. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8682-338X
Schipper, Karen
Overkamp, Debbie
van Marwijk, Harm W. J.
van Tulder, Maurits W.
Adriaanse, Marcel C.
Funding for this research was provided by:
ZonMw (80-82310-97-12110)
Article History
Received: 23 June 2017
Accepted: 14 November 2018
First Online: 23 December 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Step-Dep project included several studies, including an RCT registered in the Dutch Trial Register (registration number 3715), and was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the VU Medical Center (Step-Dep study, NL39261.029.12, registration number 2012/223). The study was performed in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki (2008) and the Dutch Medical Research involving Human Subjects Act (WMO). Written informed consent was obtained from all participating patients. Additional spoken informed consent for the interviews was given by each participant. Confidentiality was maintained using restricted, secure access to the data, destruction of audio tapes following transcription and de-identifying the transcripts.
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