Sanne, Ingebjørg
Bjørke-Monsen, Anne-Lise
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Bergen
Article History
Received: 28 September 2022
Accepted: 24 March 2023
First Online: 6 April 2023
Declarations
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: The Regional Committee for Medical Research Ethics West was consulted before the study started. As this was an anonymous Internet-based survey the Regional Committee for Medical Research Ethics decided that the study should be approved by the Norwegian Centre for Research Data (NSD). The Norwegian Centre for Research Data is a Norwegian government-owned company responsible for managing data for the research community of Norway (ExternalRef removed). The study was approved by the Norwegian Centre for Research Data (NSD), reference 108552. All data was collected anonymously and in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. As this was an anonymous Internet-based survey, in order to ensure anonymity, subjects cannot have their names on their surveys or on informed consent documents. After instruction from the Norwegian Centre for Research Data and the Medical Faculty, University of Bergen, detailed information about the survey was advertised on the website of the Medical Faculty, University of Bergen and detailed written information was sent by mail through the University system to all students at the Medical Faculty, University of Bergen. Implied consent was used as the students, both at the website of the Medical Faculty and in the written information, were informed that their consent was implied by submitting the completed survey.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.