Griffiths, Kristi R. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7108-2272
Martin Monzon, Beatriz
Madden, Sloane
Kohn, Michael R.
Touyz, Stephen
Sachdev, Perminder S.
Clarke, Simon
Foroughi, Nasim
Hay, Phillipa
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Health and Medical Research Council (1122842)
Article History
Received: 14 July 2020
Accepted: 29 September 2020
First Online: 13 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Professor Touyz has received royalties from Shire/Takeda for commissioned reports and speaking engagements. He is also the Chair of the Australian Clinical Advisory Board for Binge Eating Disorder. He has also received research grant funding as well as travel grants. He has also received royalties from Taylor and Francis, Hogrefe and Huber and McGraw Hill for books/book chapters. Professor Touyz is a mental health adviser to the Commonwealth Department of Veteran Affairs. He has received honoraria from Weight Watchers (WW). Professor Hay receives/has received sessional fees and lecture fees from the Australian Medical Council, Therapeutic Guidelines publication, and New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry and royalties/honoraria from Hogrefe and Huber, McGraw Hill Education, and Blackwell Scientific Publications, Biomed Central and PlosMedicine and she has received research grants from the NHMRC and ARC. She is Chair of the National Eating Disorders Collaboration Steering Committee in Australia (2012) and Member of the ICD-11 Working Group for Eating Disorders (2012–2018) and was Chair Clinical Practice Guidelines Project Working Group (Eating Disorders) of RANZCP (2012–2015). In the past 5 years she has prepared a report under contract for Shire Pharmaceuticals) and received honoraria for education of psychiatrists from Shire Pharmaceuticals (Takeda group). All views in this paper are her own. Associate Professor Madden has received research grants from the NHMRC. He is on the Steering Committee of the National Eating Disorders Collaboration in Australia (2012-) and was a member of the Clinical Practice Guidelines Project Working Group (Eating Disorders) of RANZCP (2012–2015). All other Authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.
: The study protocol (HREC/13/SCHN/385) received approval by the Human Research Ethics Committees of Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Western Sydney University and Westmead Hospital, and was carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Informed written consent was obtained from all participants and from parents of those under the age of 16.
: Informed written consent was obtained from all participants for their de-identified data to be published in this article.