Funding for this research was provided by:
Centre for Studies in Primary Care, Queen's University
Mach-Gaensslen Foundation of Canada
Article History
First Online: 28 October 2019
Compliance With Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Ethics approval was received from the Queen’s Health Sciences Review of Ethics Board (file #6010513 FMED-328-13) and Lakehead University’s Research Ethics Board (file # 1464574).
: The study involved interviews with human subjects, age 13–16. 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.
: Parent(s) gave verbal or written informed consent for their adolescent to participate. Participants, themselves, also provided verbal informed consent when they contacted researchers to schedule an interview and arrived for that interview. At the start of the interview confidentiality, the purpose of the interview, and the option to not answer questions or stop the interview at any point were reviewed.