Exclusion criteria were pregnancy, lactation, an illness with a likely prognosis of less than one year or a psychiatric illness likely to limit study involvement or invalidate informed consent.
Thirty-two participantsrticipants were identified and their involvement requested and informed consent obtained; they comprised academic and clinical nurses, GPs, psychiatrists, psychologists, social scientists and pharmacists, and they were based in the UK and other European countries, the USA, Australia and Taiwan.
All patients involved provided informed consent.
All the patients involved provided informed consent.
Informed consent is designed to provide information to the potential subject about the research and the subject's involvement in the research.An informed consent form is able to document voluntary informed consent and should be only one of many means used to obtain informed consent.
Subjects received an informational letter outlining the purpose of the study and the extent of their involvement, and physicians obtained informed consent prior to study.
Current guidelines addresses issues such as community participation, involvement of vulnerable populations, children and women as well informed consent and monitoring informed consent [ 31].
Both South Africa and the United States have a nursing code of ethics which endorses a nurse's responsibility to maintain a patient's right to confidentiality, involvement in decision-making, autonomy, and informed consent.
Participants provided informed consent prior to involvement in this study.
Potential control patients will be approached prior to discharge and informed consent obtained for involvement in the study using standard Information Statements and Consent Forms.
The study was granted ethical approval from the UNITEC Institute of Technology and the Auckland University of Technology ethics committees, and all participants provided informed consent prior to involvement in the study.
