Galletta, Maura
Portoghese, Igor http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3700-8594
Melis, Paola
Gonzalez, Cesar Ivan Aviles
Finco, Gabriele
D’Aloja, Ernesto
Contu, Paolo
Campagna, Marcello
Article History
Received: 4 July 2018
Accepted: 30 January 2019
First Online: 18 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Formal ethics approval was not necessary for the study as the research included nurses’ perception data (through questionnaires), rather than data from patient surveys or therapeutic medication. No ethical approval is required in Italy for observational nature studies as they are not defined as medical\clinical research, referring to the Italian law 211/2003. This study complies with the Declaration of Helsinki in 1995 (as revised in Edinburgh 2000) and with Italian privacy law (Decree n. 196/2003). Verbal consent was given by nurses to participate in the study. Because of the anonymity, written consent was not legally required and returning the completed questionnaire was considered as informed consent.
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