Arifin, Bustanul http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2303-310X
van Asselt, Antoinette D. I.
Setiawan, Didik
Atthobari, Jarir
Postma, Maarten J.
Cao, Qi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Beasiswa Pendidikan Indonesia (BPI)/ LPDP (20130821080334)
University of Groningen in the Netherlands (Project code 134502)
Article History
Received: 20 August 2018
Accepted: 9 September 2019
First Online: 30 October 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta, Indonesia (document number KE/FK/1188/EC, 12 November 2014, amended 16 March 2015). Participants were verbally informed on content, design and objective of the study. Furthermore, The Ministry of Home Affairs of Republic of Indonesia issued a research recommendation (number 440.02/ 4480 on 25 November 2014) and sent it to the provinces and regencies where the proposed research was to be carried out. In addition, we also obtained a research permit from the Central BPJS with document number 856/ Bang/ 0914 on September 17, 2014. Based on this Central BPJS permit, we were able to collaborate with BPJS branches in the provinces and regencies. Data collection in all health facilities obtained permission from relevant parties, such as hospital directors, head of PHCs or family doctors. Subsequently, all participants were willing to read and signed an informed consent and were comfortable with filling out the instrument. For two female participants with limited reading ability due to forgotten reading glasses (> 80 years and not illiterate), informed consent was given on the spot orally by the caregiver (adult children) as well as again by the participants for supported participation in the study.
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: Prof Maarten J Postma reports grants and honoraria from various pharmaceutical companies, all fully unrelated to this project. The other authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.