Varni, James W.
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Delamater, Alan M.
Hood, Korey K.
Raymond, Jennifer K.
Driscoll, Kimberly A.
Wong, Jenise C.
Adi, Saleh
Yi-Frazier, Joyce P.
Grishman, Ellen K.
Faith, Melissa A.
Corathers, Sarah D.
Kichler, Jessica C.
Miller, Jennifer L.
Doskey, Elena M.
Aguirre, Vincent P.
Heffer, Robert W.
Wilson, Don P.
Article History
Accepted: 11 May 2018
First Online: 21 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: New item development and item modification of the existing PedsQL™ 3.0 Diabetes Module for the published item generation qualitative methods study for the PedsQL™ 3.2 Diabetes Module was previously funded by Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis. Dr. Varni holds the copyright and the trademark for the PedsQL™ and receives financial compensation from the Mapi Research Trust, which is a nonprofit research institute that charges distribution fees to for-profit companies that use the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™. Dr. Varni did not receive funding from Eli Lilly and Company for the current quantitative methods field test study. The other authors report no competing interests related to this study.
: The research protocol for the field test study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at each participating institution. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committees.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.