Daud, Maryam Hannah
Ramli, Anis Safura
Abdul-Razak, Suraya
Isa, Mohamad Rodi
Yusoff, Fakhrul Hazman
Baharudin, Noorhida
Mohamed-Yassin, Mohamed Syarif
Badlishah-Sham, Siti Fatimah
Nikmat, Azlina Wati
Jamil, Nursuriati
Mohd-Nawawi, Hapizah
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Education (MoE), Malaysia: Prototype Research Grant Scheme (PRGS/1/2018/SKK05/UiTM/01/2 or 600-IRMI/PRGS 5/3 (003/2019))
Article History
Received: 31 October 2019
Accepted: 9 March 2020
First Online: 5 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study protocol has been approved by the Research Ethics Committee (REC) of Universiti Teknologi MARA [600-IRMI (5/1/6)/REC/134/19]. This study will be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and good clinical practice requirements (Ministry of Health, 2011). The REC will be informed if there is any amendment made to the study protocol. Information sheets for patients and physicians will be distributed, and written informed consent will be obtained from both patients and physicians prior to enrolment. A research assistant will be trained by the investigators to conduct these procedures. To reduce patients’ perceived coercion to participate in the study, patient enrolment will be done by the research assistant and not the patients’ attending doctors. The EMPOWER-SUSTAIN consent forms for the patients and physicians are provided as Additional files InternalRef removed and InternalRef removed, respectively. Patients will be informed of any immediate results obtained from the study that might affect their care or health. Confidentiality of personal information will be ensured at all times by keeping the data in a password-protected, secured database at I-PPerForM, UiTM. Research license to use the PAM-13-M will be obtained from Insignia Health, University of Oregon, prior to the baseline data collection.
: Patients’ consent for publication is not applicable, because patients’ individual data will be neither provided nor presented in a publication.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.