Kayrouz, Rony http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2687-6724
Karin, Eyal
Ghanem, Carawan
Choudhury, Nafisa
Malas, Ahmad
Article History
Accepted: 25 January 2022
First Online: 19 February 2022
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The questionnaire and methodology for this study was approved by the Human Research Ethics committee of Macquarie University (Ethics approval number: 52020572614776).
: The information sheet and consent form to participate and publish were printed and provided to all students to give to their parents, whom provide written consent if they did not want their child to participate in the study. School counsellors and staff were given hard copies of the questionnaire to distribute at roll call and other classes. All students were provided with printed questionnaires and information sheets, which were collected and returned to the LMA by a school representative. The original purpose of the data collection was a grass-root exploratory study by the local Muslim community trying to understand the mental health needs of their Muslim youth. The director of the LMA approached the lead author (RK) to analyse the data. As the collected data used an opt-out consent approach, and the collected data may include responses from students whose parents either did not return the form (as they were happy for their child to take part), or who did not see the form for one reason or another. The lead author requested a waiver of consent by the Macquarie University Human Research Ethics Committee in order to analyse the de-identified data and publish the results, which was approved.