Gjellestad, Åshild
Oksholm, Trine
Alvsvåg, Herdis
Bruvik, Frøydis
Article History
Received: 4 January 2022
Accepted: 18 May 2022
First Online: 4 June 2022
Declarations
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: Permission to conduct the study was given from Norwegian Centre for Research Data with reference number 515138/2020. The study was approved by the research advisers and home care managers in the municipality. Informed oral and written consent was obtained from all participants before the interviews. The participants were told that they were free to withdraw from the study at any stage of the interview process without any consequences and that all data would be anonymized. Interview transcripts and audiotapes were kept in separate locked files and only relevant researchers had access to data. The external transcriber signed an agreement of confidentiality and non-disclosure. The transcriber received the sound files on an encrypted memory chip sent by a recorded delivery that requires a signature by the recipient. The text and sound files were deleted after the transcription job was finished. Interviews were transcribed, and the names and personal information of the participants were anonymized in this process. The study was carried out in concordance with the ethical guidelines for research in the Helsinki Declaration [CitationRef removed]. The findings are presented in such a way that neither the participating home care staff nor the persons with dementia they assisted can be identified.
: Not applicable.
: I declare that the authors have no competing interests as defined by BMC, or other interests that might be perceived to influence the results and/or discussion reported in this paper.