Bidonde, Julia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7535-678X
Lauvrak, Vigdis http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1352-8870
Ananthakrishnan, Aparna http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7707-2729
Kingkaew, Pritaporn http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2626-7806
Peacocke, Elizabeth F. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6930-9581
Funding for this research was provided by:
Norwegian agency for development cooperation (QZA-18/0102)
Norwegian Agency for Development and Cooperation (QZA-21/0082)
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Article History
Received: 19 August 2022
Accepted: 10 January 2024
First Online: 6 February 2024
Declarations
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: The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2013. The survey did not require formal ethical approval as the focus was not the individuals’ perspectives, rather the reporting of practices and processes in their institutions. We followed all ethical practices for survey research. For the interviews we obtained a waiver for ethical clearance from the Norwegian Ethics Regional Committees for Medical and Healthcare Professional (application #586503). Participants were given detailed information on the purpose and process of the survey and interviews to enable them to make an informed decision on participation, indicating that any information provided would be used in a report and a scientific publication. We also explicitly informed participants that their responses, including information on their organization, would be identifiable and publicly shared, although we would not link individual responses to a specific country.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests (neither financial nor non-financial interests).