Baumbach, Linda
König, Hans-Helmut
Hajek, André
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Article History
Received: 22 December 2021
Accepted: 17 October 2022
First Online: 7 February 2023
Declarations
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: The DEAS study was organized by the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA – “Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen”). All participants provided inform consent to participate in the study, prior to the interviews. The study follows the Helsinki Declaration recommendations on ethical principles. The DEAZ has a permanent advisory board, which received detailed information about the sampling method, the consent to participate and the instruments used in the DEAS study prior to each wave of data collection. This advisory board decided that an ethical approval from an ethics committee was not required since the criteria for such a statement were not fulfilled (for instance, examination of patients, risk for the respondents, lack of information about the goals of the study, use of invasive methods). This is in accordance with the German Research Foundation-guidelines (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) available: ExternalRef removed. The descripted procedure is in concordance with local guidelines. Please, see the RatSWD (Principles and Review Procedures of Research Ethics in the Social and Economic Sciences): ExternalRef removed, page 28 (only available in German language).
: Not applicable.
: The authors have nothing to disclose.