Kristoffersen, Agnete Egilsdatter
Jong, Miek C.
Nordberg, Johanna Hök
van der Werf, Esther T.
Stub, Trine
Funding for this research was provided by:
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Article History
Received: 11 June 2021
Accepted: 23 June 2022
First Online: 3 September 2022
Declarations
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: Approval was applied for at the Regional Committee North for Medical and Health Research Ethics (REK 2020/133217). They decided that the study would not provide new knowledge about health and disease, and was therefore not considered health research in Norway; it did not need of approval from The Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics according to the following guidelines:“Examples of activities that do not require approval from REC:<i>Use of other anonymous information and assessments of health conditions. Anonymous information means information in which names, personal identification numbers and other unique characteristics are removed so that data can no longer be linked to an individual (section 2 of the Health Registry Act)</i> [CitationRef removed, CitationRef removed]”.The survey did not include identifying information (name, birth date, residential address) of the participants. Informed consent to participate was obtained from all respondents<b>,</b> and procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration [CitationRef removed].
: Not applicable.
: The first author Agnete Egilsdatter Kristoffersen is a member of the editorial board (Associate Editor) of BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies. Non of the other authors have competing interests.