All participants will receive study information letters and informed consent forms.
The study protocol, information letters and informed consent form were approved by the Medical Ethics Review Committee of the VU University Medical Center.
Information letters and Informed Consent forms will be translated in various languages, to ensure that participants can read them in their own language.
The Medical Ethics Committee of the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam approved the study design, protocols, information letters and informed consent form.
The researchers provided hospitals with the surveys, information letters, and informed consent forms which were distributed to nursing staff by their managers primarily during departmental nursing meetings; one hospital attached the surveys to pay-stubs.
The protocol, information letters, questionnaires, and the informed consent form of the study were approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland (no 32/12).
The Medical Ethical Committee of the VUmc approved the study design, protocols, information letters to the patients and informed consent form.
The therapists who met with the patient and his/her parent informed about the project and handed out information letters.
The medical Ethics Committee Fundació d'Investigació en Atenció Primària has approved the study design, the protocols, information letters to the patients and the informed consent form.
School-children who volunteered to participate in the study were given information letters, adolescent medical health questionnaires and informed consent forms for parents to complete at home.
Between September 2013 and January 2014, patients visiting a nephrology clinic at a hospital in the south of Sweden were informed of the study via posters and information letters.
