Kouimtsidis, Christos http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9975-2955
Houghton, Ben
Gage, Heather
Notley, Caitlin
Maskrey, Vivienne
Clark, Allan
Holland, Richard
Lingford-Hughes, Anne
Punukollu, Bhaskar
Touray, Morro
Duka, Theodora
Funding for this research was provided by:
Research for Patient Benefit Programme (PB-PG-0815-20014)
Article History
Received: 28 May 2020
Accepted: 21 June 2021
First Online: 29 July 2021
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Health Research Authority (HRA) Research Ethics Committee (REC) (IRAS ID:213086) for all participating centres. All study personnel will comply with the MCA 2005 (33) and published research governance guidelines. We anticipate that all participants will have capacity to consent and sufficient verbal communication skills to take part in the treatment and in the qualitative interview. Informed written consent will be obtained from all participants. As this is a non-invasive intervention, we do not anticipate any adverse events, but we will follow safety reporting guidance issued by the National Research Ethics Service (UK) for studies except clinical trials of investigational medicinal products. The study has been approved by the Research and Development (R&D) departments of the relevant recruiting sites.
: Not applicable<b>.</b>
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.