Verstraete, Janine http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1148-4747
Booth, Christopher
Booth, Jane
Peer, Shazia
McGuire, Jessica
Kritzinger, Fiona http://orcid.org/0009-0004-0155-7377
Gray, Taryn
Zibi, Noluthando
Shabangu, Primrose
Zampoli, Marco
Funding for this research was provided by:
EuroQol Research Foundation (EQ-426)
University of Cape Town
Article History
Accepted: 15 October 2023
First Online: 22 November 2023
Declarations
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: Open access funding provided by University of Cape Town. This study was funded by the EuroQol Research Foundation EQ-426. All views expressed by the authors do not necessarily reflect the views of the EuroQol Group.
: Janine Verstraete receives an honorarium from Merck and is reimbursed for her time on the Younger Populations Working Group of the EuroQol group, receives research grants and is a member of the EuroQol group. Marco Zampoli receives research grants from the EuroQol Group. Christopher Booth, Jane Booth, Shazia Peer, Jessica McGuire, Fiona Kritzinger, Taryn Gray, Noluthando Zibi and Primrose Shabangu have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.
: Ethics approval was obtained from the University of Cape Town, Faculty of Health Sciences, Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC 740_2021) and institutional approval was obtained from Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: All participants aged older than 8 years provided informed assent to participate in the study. The parents or legal guardians of all children provided informed consent for their own participation and the participation of their child.
: All participants provided informed assent and their parent or legal guardian provided informed consent to have the findings of this study published.
: The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: Not applicable.
: JV contributed towards the proposal development, conception and design of the study, ethical submission, sourcing of funding, data collection and analysis, discussion and conclusion, and development of the manuscript. MZ contributed to the proposal development and manuscript development. CB, JB, PS and NZ contributed to proposal development, data collection and manuscript development. SP, JM, TG and FK contributed to proposal development and critical revision of the manuscript.