Vikström, Sofia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2455-8004
Grönstedt, Helena K.
Cederholm, Tommy
Franzén, Erika
Seiger, Åke
Faxén-Irving, Gerd
Boström, Anne-Marie
Funding for this research was provided by:
Nutricia Research Foundation
Stiftelsen för Gamla Tjänarinnor (x)
Article History
Received: 6 January 2020
Accepted: 23 August 2020
First Online: 4 September 2020
Change Date: 8 December 2020
Change Type: Update
Change Details: Open Access Funding note was added to backmatter text of the article. This article has been updated to correct this.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval and consent to participate in the study was approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority (former Regional Ethical Review Board in Stockholm), D no. 2013/1659–31/2, 2015/1994–32 and 2016/1223–32.As stated in the approved application, participants were informed both in writing and verbally about the study aim, that their identity and data would be kept confidential, and about their rights to withdraw at any time. Due to their frail conditions and reduced abilities in reading and writing, the participants received information and gave their verbal consent repeatedly in the recruitment process and before the interview started. This consideration was made since dementia by nature affects memory abilities, resulting in the conclusion that a single consent could be questioned as invalid at a later stage in a study [CitationRef removed]. Therefore, prior to the interviews, as well as when each interview started being recorded, the first author asked for additional consent. This meant that oral consent to collect and record the qualitative data was confirmed verbally on tape-recorder and became part of the verbatim digital interview transcripts [CitationRef removed]. The first author was also attentive to any non-verbal signs of inconvenience, indicating wishes to refraim from participation (which would have called for interruption of the interview) [CitationRef removed].This manuscript submitted for publication and its content (including interventions mentioned) comply with the national legislation of Sweden, where it was performed.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.