Straszek, Christian Lund
Skrubbeltrang, Lotte Stausgaard
O’Sullivan, Kieran
Thomsen, Janus Laust
Rathleff, Michael Skovdal
Funding for this research was provided by:
University College of Northern Denmark, Aalborg, Denmark
Danske Fysioterapeuter,Denmark
Article History
Received: 27 April 2023
Accepted: 20 November 2023
First Online: 29 November 2023
Declarations
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: All adolescents in the study received oral and written information about the purpose of the study prior to participating. Written informed consent was obtained from all adolescents prior to undertaking the interview. For interview studies among adolescents from Denmark between 15 and 18 years of age, there is no requirement for obtaining written informed consent from parents/legal guardians prior to undertaking the study. However, researchers are required to inform parents/legal guardians about the project in which the adolescents participate. Therefore, for all participants under the age of 18, parents/legal guardians were forwarded written information about the study. These guidelines are outlined by the Danish Data Protection Agency and the approach was further checked and confirmed by the local Ethics Committee. In Denmark, interview studies are exempt from obtaining approval from an ethics committee as this type of research does not fall within the legal boundaries of the regional ethics committees (LBK nr 1338 of 01/09/2020). Nevertheless, the Ethics Committee in the Northern Region of Denmark (Niels Bohrs Vej 30, 9220 Aalborg East, Denmark. The Region of Northern Denmark) was informed about the study approach outlined above and replied that no ethical approval was required (journal number: 2023 − 000206). The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: One author (KOS) provides continuing professional development training on the treatment of low back pain. The reaming authors (CLS, LSS, JLT, MSR) have no competing interest to declare.