MEANINGFUL ACTIVITIES OF CHILDREN WITH MITOCHONDRIAL DISORDER 83 3 Ethical approval The ethical board of the regional research committee provided their consent in undertaking this research (ethical board approval number 2016-2968). Data were analysed anonymously. The research was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki (General Assembly of the World Medical 2014). Therefore, all procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent All parents signed informed consent. If possible, the children also signed the informed consent to recognise their volition/agency (Stafford et al. 2003).
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