Funding for this research was provided by:
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01MD005861)
Article History
First Online: 13 May 2017
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Dr. Geri Donenberg has received a research grant from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01MD005861) to fund this research. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: 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. All procedures were approved by the Office of the Protection of Research Subjects at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
: Informed youth assent and parental consent were obtained from all individual participants included in the study, and their legal guardians.