van Heusden, Alexander http://orcid.org/0009-0007-8055-5450
Rivero-Arias, Oliver http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2233-6544
Herdman, Michael http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8189-5357
Hiscock, Harriet http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3017-2770
Devlin, Nancy http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1561-5361
Dalziel, Kim http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4972-8871
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Funding for this research was provided by:
EuroQol Research Foundation (2020RA)
National Health and Medical Research Council (1136222)
National Health and Medical Research Council (1200816)
University of Melbourne
Article History
Accepted: 2 January 2024
First Online: 18 January 2024
Declarations
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: Conceptualisation/Design: All authors. Data analysis lead: AVH. Data analysis support: All authors. Drafted manuscript: AVH. Reviewed and revision of manuscript: All authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
: Open Access funding enabled and organized by CAUL and its Member Institutions. This research was funded by an Australian Government Medical Research Futures Fund (MRFF) grant (1200816) and a EuroQol Research Foundation grant (EQ Project 111-2020RA). AVH is supported by a Research Training Program Scholarship provided by the Australian Commonwealth Government and the University of Melbourne. HH is funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Practitioner Fellowship (1136222). The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute is supported by the Victorian Government’s Operational Infrastructure Support Program.
: Kim Dalziel, Nancy Devlin, Harriet Hiscock, Oliver Rivero-Arias, and Michael Herdman have received previous or current funding from the EuroQol Research Foundation, who is the developer and copyright holder of the instruments included in this study. Nancy Devlin, Oliver Rivero-Arias, and Michael Herdman are members of the EuroQol Group, and Nancy Devlin is also the chair of the Board of the EuroQol Research Foundation. Michael Herdman is a guest editor of the supplement in which this article appears. He played no part in the peer review or decision making of this article at the editorial level and contributed solely as an author. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the EuroQol Research Foundation. Alexander van Heusden has no conflicts to declare.
: This study was approved by The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC/71963/RCHM2021) on 20 May 2021.
: The study was prospectively registered with the Australia New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) [ACTRN12621000646842].
: The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: Permission to publish has been granted by the EuroQol Research Foundation.
: Not applicable.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: This article is published in a journal supplement wholly funded by the Australian Government MRFF funded QUOKKA research grant 1200816, the University of Melbourne, the EuroQol Research Foundation, the University of Technology Sydney and Flinders University.