Ethical aspect of this research

1. The research is NOT involving children or vulnerable adults; government staff; sensitive topics such as trauma, bereavement, drug-use and data that comes under the official secrets acts.

 

2. The anonymity of all participants/respondents ensured:

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• NO names/emails/phone numbers/metadata/social media accounts were collected

• The questionary was distributed online (NO personal presence that could unleashed the personality was required)

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3. The raw data was stored on my personal hard disk in the single exemplar (there is NO cloud backup) and was not provided to anyone

 

4. Every participant/respondent was informed that their answers will be further analyzed

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5. The respondents were not analyzed on individual basis, but were gathered into number of different groups (based on gender, region, age and so on)

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