Arbuckle, Rob http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0345-2523
Halstead, Patricia
Marshall, Chris
Zimmerman, Brenda
Bolton, Kate
Regnault, Antoine
Gelotte, Cathy
Funding for this research was provided by:
McNeil Consumer Healthcare
Article History
Accepted: 19 September 2020
First Online: 11 November 2020
Declarations
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: This research was funded by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a Division of Johnson & Johnson Consumer, Inc. Editorial support was provided by Rebecca Hall from Adelphi, and funded by member companies of the Pediatric Cough and Cold Task group of the Consumer Health Products Association (Washington, DC).
: R. Arbuckle is an employee of Adelphi Values (known as Mapi Values at the time the research was conducted), a health outcomes agency commissioned to conduct this research. At the time of the study, C. Marshall, K. Bolton, and A. Renault were also employees of Mapi Values, but all have since left the company. P. Halstead, B. Zimmerman, and C. Gelotte are former employees of McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a Division of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Consumer, Inc., and hold stock or stock options in J&J. C. Gelotte has received consultant fees from J&J and an honorarium from the Consumer Health Products Association. The authors have no other conflicts of interest regarding the content of this article.
: 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. The study was approved and overseen by Copernicus, an independent review board (IRB) in the US (IRB approval #MAP2-11-470).
: Written informed consent was obtained from a parent/guardian of all children who participated in the study and written and verbal assent was obtained from all of the children.
: As part of the written informed consent form, all parent/guardian consented to study results being published in anonymised, aggregated form.
: The data described in this article are not publicly available in further detail.
: The code for the analyses described in this article is not publicly available.
: All authors contributed to the design of the study and development of the items and response options. RA, KB, and CM were responsible for conducting the research, including involvement in the study design, development of study documents, and data collection and interpretation. AR was responsible for the analysis of the data—he drafted the analysis plan (which was reviewed by all other authors), was involved in the conduct of all analysis, and contributed substantially to interpretation of the findings. PH, BZ, and CG contributed to the design of the study, reviewed all study documents, and were involved in the interpretation of the data. All authors were responsible for reviewing and revising the manuscript and have given approval for this version to be published.