Papaioannou, Maria
Papastavrou, Evridiki
Kouta, Christiana
Tsangari, Haritini
Merkouris, Anastasios
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cyprus State Scholarship Foundation (C.S.S.F.1.2.10.107)
Article History
Received: 3 May 2022
Accepted: 22 December 2022
First Online: 11 January 2023
Declarations
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: For conducting the study, approval was given (a) from the National Bioethics Committee (SP.2015.01.115), (b) Commissioner for Personal Data Protection, and (c) from the Scientific Committee for the Promotion of Research of the Ministry of Health (Fac. No. 5.34.01.7.6E), for delivering questionnaires to nurses working in Public Hospitals. Ethical standards have been followed during the research process and all participants were fully informed of the purposes of the study. Participation was voluntary. All participants gave informed consent for the research and their anonymity was preserved. The participants’ consent is concerned, after the approval of the bioethics committee, completing and returning the questionnaire was considered as consent to participate in the study. Also, permission to use the research instrument was obtained by Malcolm Hare, (via email on 7/7/2015).All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations of the Declaration of Helsinki (as revised in Brazil 2013).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.