Altannir, Youssef
Alnajjar, Wedad
Ahmad, Syed Osama
Altannir, Mustafa
Yousuf, Fouad
Obeidat, Akef
Al-Tannir, Mohamad
Article History
Received: 11 September 2017
Accepted: 16 January 2019
First Online: 25 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was obtained from the institutional review board at AlFaisal University under exempt approval category. Anonymous data collection such as using an anonymous questionnaire with no sensitive data for the study population does not oblige written consent. However, a study information sheet was attached to the questionnaire to reassure and make the participants feel more comfortable about participating. Consent was not documented because the research fits within the minimal risk category of and includes neither harm to participants nor procedures for which written consent is usually needed within the research perspective as per Research ethics code. The information sheet indicated that students’ participation is voluntary and the identity will not be collected so their information can never be matched to their responses and confidentiality is highly maintained. Verbal consent was granted by the institutional review board and was obtained from each student before filling out the survey.
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