Myers, Bronwyn http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0235-6716
Bantjes, Jason
Lochner, Christine
Mortier, Phillippe
Kessler, Ronald C.
Stein, Dan J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
South African Medical Research Council
Article History
Received: 4 June 2020
Accepted: 10 November 2020
First Online: 4 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: This study has been approved by the appropriate ethics committee and has therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. The Health Science Research Ethics Committee of the University of Cape Town (Reference: 744/2015) and Stellenbosch University (Reference: N13/10/149) approved this study. Permission to conduct the study was obtained from both universities. Participation in the study was entirely voluntary and participants provided informed consent electronically prior to completing the survey. A phone number to a general study helpdesk was included in the electronic informed consent to address study-related questions. All participants were provided with information about crisis and student counselling services and where to access emergency care if they were distressed. All data were anonymised and securely stored.
: Due to ethical restrictions, the data cannot be made publicly available. The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
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