Anil, Krithika http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8027-1665
Garip, Gulcan
Article History
Received: 6 December 2016
Accepted: 23 January 2018
First Online: 30 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was granted by the Psychology Research Ethics Committee at the University of Derby. Participants were informed that their participation was voluntary and that they could withdraw from the study at any time without reason. Written and electronic informed consent was obtained from all participants after they were briefed via participant information sheet, and were notified to contact the researcher for any further questions or concerns. All data was securely and confidentially stored with an easy-to-remember, unique participation code that each participant created for themselves; no participants requested to withdraw their data, however, all participants who would have wished to withdraw their data could do so by quoting this code.
: Not applicable
: KA previously volunteered at the UK charity “RP Fighting Blindness” for 4 months in 2014, which is where the interest in this study’s topic emerged.GG has no competing interests.
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