Blaizot, Alessandra http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4955-9721
Offner, Damien
Trohel, Gilda
Bertaud, Valérie
Bou, Christophe
Catteau, Céline
Inquimbert, Camille
Lupi-Pegurier, Laurence
Musset, Anne-Marie
Tramini, Paul
Vergnes, Jean-Noel
Funding for this research was provided by:
French society for dental public health
Unilever
Article History
Received: 19 March 2020
Accepted: 12 August 2020
First Online: 26 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: For this type of street-survey study among healthy adults, during the period of construction and conduct of the study, approval from an Ethics Committee was not mandatory in France (this type of study was not classified as biomedical research on human subjects because only interventional research was considered by the French law, Article L1121–1 of the Code de la santé publique, corresponding periods:UnorderedList removedExternalRef removedUnorderedList removedExternalRef removed).Nevertheless, the coordinating team first wrote the protocol of the study, which was submitted to each member of the research team for any amendments. The study began only after all members had approved the protocol.Our study respected the main ethical guidelines for research: each potential participant received information about the objective, method, interest and duration; could ask any question; and was also informed of the possibility to refuse to participate, and to stop and/or retry at any time during his/her participation in the study. If he/she then gave his/her oral informed consent the data were collected anonymously. Each subject was compensated for the time spent by the delivery of a brushing kit.Considering the French legislation, the type and the subject of study, and the operating conditions, the researchers chose to opt for informed oral consent, while carefully insuring the “informed” aspects.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests (financial or non-financial).