Riseth, Liv http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3072-2317
Nøst, Torunn Hatlen
Nilsen, Tom I. L.
Steinsbekk, Aslak
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Research Council of Norway (239657)
3T-Produkter (239657)
Article History
Received: 6 December 2017
Accepted: 15 February 2019
First Online: 21 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was submitted to The Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics in Central Norway (2014/1870 REK Midt) and they assessed it as not being health research and therefore not needing their approval. The study was approved by NSD — Norwegian Centre for Research Data (NSD 40604/3/SSA).The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Participants received written and oral information about the project before the consent form was signed. The interviewer informed the participants of their right to withdraw from the study at any time. The project was considered to have low or no risk for the participants. Confidentiality was ensured by keeping transcripts anonymized and audio files locked in a filing cabinet. Data was only available to the authors.
: Not applicable.
: First author is an Industrial Ph.D. candidate and was employed in the administration of 3 T-Fitness Center at the time of data collection and writing of this article. The authors declare that there is no competing interests.
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