Mah, Cassandra http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1555-2292
Noonan, Vanessa K. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3226-9218
Bryan, Stirling http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7093-3058
Whitehurst, David G. T. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7890-6756
Funding for this research was provided by:
Rick Hansen Institute (#2012-29)
Article History
First Online: 27 September 2020
Declarations
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: Financial support for this study was through a grant from the Rick Hansen Institute (Rick Hansen Institute Translational Research Program, grant #2012-29: Spinal Cord Injury & Secondary Complications: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Preference-Based Instruments). The funding agreement ensured the research team’s independence in designing the study, interpreting the data, and writing and publishing manuscripts. We would also like to thank the Office of the Vice-President, Research at Simon Fraser University for the Undergraduate Student Research Award for CM, and Health Utilities Inc. for the New Investigator Grant awarded to DGTW.
: DGTW and SB are members of the EuroQol Group Association. CM, VKN, SB, and DGTW have no further conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.
: The study was approved by the University of British Columbia Behavioural Research Ethics Board (H12-01138) and Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (#V12-01138).
: No open access availability. Individuals interested in gaining access to the survey data should contact the corresponding author.
: All study participants provided informed consent to participate (covered in the ethics approval).
: The authors' intent to publish findings from the study was explicit in the informed consent procedure.
: Not available.
: VKN, SB and DGTW were investigators for the primary study. CM and DGTW designed the secondary analysis plan, performed data analysis and drafted the original manuscript. All authors were involved in the interpretation of results, review of the draft manuscript, and read and approved the final version.