Yoosoof, Farah
Liyanage, Indika
de Silva, Ranjith
Samaraweera, Savindra
Article History
Received: 14 August 2022
Accepted: 28 November 2022
First Online: 5 December 2022
Change Date: 20 December 2022
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03963-x
Declarations
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: Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Ethics Review committee, Faculty of Medicine, General Sir John Kotalawela Defence University (Reference number RP/2021/51), which subscribes to the guidelines of the Council for International Organisations of Medical Sciences. The study was conducted in line with ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects outlined by the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki. All students received verbal information regarding the study before the intervention and were assured that non-participation would not affect their academic standing. All students were assured that data would be kept confidential and remained anonymous to the authors. Informed consent was obtained and all participants were assured that they could withdraw from the study at their own discretion within a 72-h period after completion of data collection.
: Not applicable
: All the authors (FY, IL, RS & SS) declare that they have no financial competing interests. RS and SS declare the absence of any non-financial competing interests as well. However, FY and IL are academics in the institution where the study was carried out and played a key role in the development of this novel educational intervention as well as the demonstration videos used in this study. Although the possibility of bias towards the intervention exists, the 2 authors attempted to minimize such influences by remaining blind to students who consented to participation as well as involving neutral instructors and authors in this project so as to return unbiased results.