Idsøe-Jakobsen, Ingvild
Dombestein, Heidi
Wiig, Siri
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Stavanger & Stavanger University Hospital
Article History
Received: 6 June 2023
Accepted: 29 February 2024
First Online: 14 March 2024
Declarations
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: All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. Ethical approval of all protocols was obtained before recruitment and interviews. The ethical approval was conducted by Sikt (reference number: 784787). Sikt is formerly known as the Norwegian Centre for Research Data (NSD) and is the Norwegian agency for shared services in education and research and provides the ethics approval, information security and privacy services as part of the HK-dir (Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills). Approval by Sikt is considered sufficient ethical approval for Norwegian studies without the involvement of patients, as Sikt serves as an ethics committee for research in Norwegian universities in terms of ethics, information security and privacy. Informed written consent was obtained from all interview subjects before conducting the interviews and they were informed that they were free to redraw their consent at any point. Nobody redraw their consent.
: Not applicable.
: Author Siri Wiig is associate editor in BMC Health Services Research. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.