Abed Al Ahad, Mary http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9006-730X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Royal Society of Edinburgh (1846)
Article History
Received: 7 August 2023
Accepted: 8 January 2024
First Online: 27 January 2024
Declarations
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: This paper is part of a project that was granted ethical approval on the 14th of May 2020 by the School of Geography and Sustainable Development Ethics Committee, acting on behalf of the University Teaching and Research Ethics Committee (UTREC) at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom. This paper uses data from the “Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study” which was collected by the University of Essex and can be downloaded from the UK Data Archive. The University of Essex Ethics Committee has approved all data collection on Understanding Society main study and innovation panel waves, including asking consent for all data linkages except to health records. Requesting consent for health record linkage was approved at Wave 1 by the National Research Ethics Service (NRES) Oxfordshire REC A (08/H0604/124), at BHPS Wave 18 by the NRES Royal Free Hospital & Medical School (08/H0720/60) and at Wave 4 by NRES Southampton REC A (11/SC/0274). Approval for the collection of biosocial data by trained nurses in Waves 2 and 3 of the main survey was obtained from the National Research Ethics Service (Understanding Society—UK Household Longitudinal Study: A Biosocial Component, Oxfordshire A REC, Reference: 10/H0604/2).
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.