Funding for this research was provided by:
Janssen KK
Article History
Received: 7 February 2018
Accepted: 23 October 2018
First Online: 1 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This article is based on a web-based survey and does not involve any interventions conducted on human subjects by any of the authors. Informed consent was obtained from all patients via the internet to collect their personal information except for individual-specific information capable of identifying individuals. According to Japanese regulation, no ethics review board had to be involved for this kind of study.
: JM and RS were affiliated with Janssen Pharmaceutical KK at the time the study was conducted, a company that markets drugs for the treatment of IBD.
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