Jaafari, Zahra
Mirzaei, Hossein
Moradi, Yousef
Nasiri, Naser
Mehmandoost, Soheil
Khezri, Mehrdad
Tavakoli, Fatemeh
Abbaszadeh, Samaneh
Sharifi, Hamid
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Medical Research Development (4000921)
Article History
Received: 31 October 2022
Accepted: 15 April 2023
First Online: 3 May 2023
Declarations
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: Participants were assured that their information would remain confidential. Providing services to service recipients was not affected by their willingness to participate in the interview. Due to the held virtual interview with group A, and also due to the stigma towards HIV in Iran and the fear of the patients to sign the written documents, verbal informed consent was obtained from all participants in this study. Also, National Institute for Medical Research Development (NIMAD) ethics committee approved the oral informed consent method. Participants could withdraw from the study whenever they wished. Audio recordings were made during the interviews with the permission of the interviewees, and no information about the participants’ experiences was shared with service provider personnel. All recorded interviews were stored in a password-protected file. The protocol of this project has been reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the National Institute for Medical Research Development of Iran. (Code of ethics: IR.NIMAD.REC.1400.107). All procedures were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines.
: Not applicable.
: The authors have no competing interests.