Article History
Received: 26 August 2019
Accepted: 23 May 2020
First Online: 30 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This research work is part of a wider research project “The choice and change of mental health care provider in community mental health services” approved by Modena Ethics Committee (EC 270/16-Protocol number 204/CE) on 2017, January 24th, whose regional extension has been approved by AVEN Ethics Committee on 2019, March, 18th. All Emilia-Romagna MHD heads and CMHC directors agreed to the research protocol and gave their consent to the study participation. The study was performed according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, the Clinical Good Practice rules for medical research and the most updated privacy regulations. Furthermore, Participants’ details were kept confidential. All participants provided informed consent prior to completing the questionnaire and were aware that they have the right to withdraw their participation and information at any time during the research.
: This requirement is not applicable here. The present study does not contain individual person’s data in any form, so no consent for publication from participants was needed.
: The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.