Rowthorn, Melissa J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0082-6705
Billington, D. Rex
Krägeloh, Christian U. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7298-0736
Landon, Jason http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3595-7430
Medvedev, Oleg N. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2167-5002
Article History
Accepted: 3 August 2019
First Online: 10 August 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were reviewed and approved by the Auckland University of Technology Ethics Committee (AUTEC Approval Reference 14/227) which is aligned with New Zealand National Ethics Committee guidelines and the 1964 ethical standards within the Helsinki declaration and its later amendments. Agencies were approached and gave consent to invite the people receiving and working in their services into the study. Participants with lived experience of mental illness were in stable states of mental health, identifying themselves as being in mid-later stages of recovery. All participants were provided with information sheets detailing the purposes of the study, activities involved, their rights to withdraw, contact details to request further information about the study, consent forms, and opportunities to ask questions with staff and of the researcher. Support was available to participants during and following research activities. Participants had a choice of participating in group or individual interviews in Stage 1, or of completing online or paper versions of the survey in Stage 2, as well as choices to enter a grocery voucher draw or to receive information about the study at its conclusion, if desired. All participants self-identified themselves as capable of participating in the study by signing paper-based consent forms in both studies or by clicking on a progress to the survey link, after reading the online information sheet, if they consented to participate in the online version of the questionnaire in Stage 2. Participants knew they could withdraw at any time with no consequences to them in both studies.