Verhofstadt, Monica http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6623-7444
Audenaert, Kurt
Van den Broeck, Kris
Deliens, Luc
Mortier, Freddy
Titeca, Koen
Pardon, Koen
Chambaere, Kenneth
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Research project G017818N and PhD fellowship (1162618N))
Article History
Received: 16 March 2020
Accepted: 3 July 2020
First Online: 16 July 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This research project was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and received ethical approval from the Medical Ethics Committee of the Brussels University Hospital with reference BUN 143201837302 and the Medical Ethics Committee of the Ghent University Hospital with reference 2018–1165. All psychiatrists in the web-based survey gave their informed consent to participation in this study, as they selected the option ‘yes’ in the pre-ticked <i>informed consent statement</i> right before the start of the survey. Those who filled out the paper version, gave implicit informed consent to by filling in and returning the survey.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.