Al Gahtani, Haifa Mohammed Saleh
Jahrami, Haitham Ali
Silverman, Henry J.
Article History
Received: 27 October 2020
Accepted: 14 December 2020
First Online: 8 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was obtained from the following ethics committees:• The Research and Ethics Committee at the College of Medicine and Medical Sciences at the Arabian Gulf University; Project number: E20-PI-01/20• The Institutional Review Board at the University of Maryland Baltimore <b>(</b>HP-00093211)The author (HJS) at the University of Maryland only received aggregate de-identified data, and hence the IRB made a designation that he was involved in non-human subject research.A waiver of informed consent was obtained for this secondary analysis of existing data. The waiver was justified as 1) the research involved no greater than minimal risk as the data set was deidentified; 2) it was impracticable to conduct the research without the waiver; and 3) the waiver will not adversely affect the rights and welfare of the subjects. Finally, the privacy of the medical students was assured, as the questionnaires were collected anonymously.
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: All authors declare that they do not have any competing interests.