| 51 3 post-diagnostic support and how healthcare providers connect the diagnostic trajectory to post-diagnostic support. Participants For the quantitative strand, participants were recruited in Australia, Canada (Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick), the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom (UK). Each country aimed to include 50 participants. For the qualitative strand, participants were recruited in Australia, Canada (Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick), the Netherlands, and Poland and each country aimed to include 10 participants. Participants in all countries but the UK could participate in one of the two strands or both. Participants were eligible if they were involved in the diagnostic process of dementia or provided postdiagnostic support in a professional capacity. There were no constraints on the type of job the healthcare providers held. A broad range of recruitment strategies such as local memory clinics, Alzheimer associations, and local healthcare organizations were used to gather a convenience sample for the qualitative and quantitative data (Appendix A). For the qualitative strand, participants could indicate interest to participate via our quantitative strand. Procedures Each country obtained ethical approval for the quantitative and qualitative strands of the study. The study was executed according to the Helsinki Declaration (21). The following local ethics committees approved study procedures; University of New South Wales, Human Research Ethics Committee: #HC190776, Research Ethics Institutional Review Board Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University: #A09-B70-20A, University of Waterloo Office of Research Ethics: #41423, Horizon Health Network Research Ethics Board: #100560, Vitalité Health Network Research Ethics Board: #100858, University of New Brunswick Research Ethics Board: #057-2019, Maastricht University Medical Centre Medical Ethics Committee: #2019-1064 -A-10 and 2019-1064, Wroclaw Medical University, Ethics Committee: KB–602/2019. For the quantitative and qualitative strands, potential participants were given the information letter, and they could contact the researcher for more detailed information. Participants in the quantitative strand provided written informed consent or ticked a box prior to starting the survey that acted as consent,
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