All studies in the context specified below that will be sent to our journal must submit the ethics committee documents. Studies without ethics committee certificate will not be evaluated.

Studies that require the approval of the Ethics Committee are as follows:
• All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from the participants by using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview techniques,
• The use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical studies on humans,
• Research on animals,
• Retrospective studies in accordance with the personal data protection law.

Moreover;
• Indicating that an “informed consent form” was received in case reports,
• Obtaining and specifying permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others,
• It should be stated that copyright regulations are complied with for the intellectual and artistic works used.

In the articles to be published in our journal, whether ethical committee permission and / or legal / special permission is required, and if these permissions are required, from which institution, on what date and with which decision or issue number, it should be clearly presented with wet signed documents to be uploaded to our system.