Fitzgerald, Michael P.
Hennigan, Kerrie
O’Gorman, Clodagh S.
McCarron, Laura
Article History
Received: 24 June 2017
Accepted: 10 April 2018
First Online: 5 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: No animals were involved in this study. 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. Growing Up in Ireland is being conducted under ethical approval from the Health Research Board’s Research Ethics Committee. This involves a rigorous ethical review of each part of the study including international reports on the project’s design and content.
: Detailed information sheets were prepared for all potential participants in Growing Up in Ireland, including parents, children, teachers, principals, non-resident parents and regular carers. These sheets described the type of information that would be gathered, what would be involved for participants, the longitudinal nature of the study and details about the researchers and funding bodies. All participants were informed of the voluntary nature of the study and of their right to refuse to answer any questions that they did not wish to answer. Signed consent was obtained from a parent/guardian and the Study Child concerned before any data were collected about that child.