Maalouf, Wadih
Stojanovic, Milos
Kiefer, Matthew
Campello, Giovanna
Heikkila, Hanna
El-Khatib, Ziad
Funding for this research was provided by:
Lions Clubs International Foundation
Article History
First Online: 12 April 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) is the owner of the copyright to the Lions Quest program. Matthew Kiefer is the program manager for LCIF. He receives no commission or financial incentive for increased sales of the program.
: This was a pilot study, which was reviewed and approved by the Ministries of Education of the three countries, the representatives of the schools, and the UNODC Drug Prevention and Health Branch. Also, no personal identifiers, for the participating students, were collected. 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.
: Permit for the study was received from the Ministries of Education, schools, and teachers. Informed assent was received, verbally, from the students, and their participation was voluntarily. No personal identifiers were collected and students were given the option to opt-out by submitting the self-filled questionnaire blank, in case they prefer not to answer.