Dolja-Gore, Xenia
Loxton, Deborah
D’Este, Catherine
Blyth, Fiona
Byles, Julie
Article History
Received: 10 November 2014
Accepted: 13 March 2018
First Online: 17 April 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: All authors have read and understood the Community Mental Health Journal policy on declaration of interests and all authors declare: JB was funded byBeyondbluethrough the SAX institute to carry out the research for the submitted work but this does not represent a conflict of interest; both JB and DL from ‘The Priority Research Centre for Generational Health and Ageing’ research centre have a financial relationships with the Department of Health and Ageing who fund the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health study this dataset was not used in the current study and is not a conflict of interest in this research; no other relationships or activities exist that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.
: The 45 and Up study is bound by the Australian Commonwealth and State privacy legislation, including the Health Records and Information Privacy Act and the NSW Health Privacy Manual. In addition, ethical approval for the 45 and Up Study as a whole was obtained from the University of New South Wales Human Research Ethics Committee. Participants are non-identifiable and personal information is not disclosed to the researcher. For this project privacy protocols were signed and the project specifications were approved by the Sax Institute for use of the 45 and Up Study data. This study was approved by the University of New South Wales and University of Newcastle Human Research Ethics Committees.