Smyth, Natasha http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8940-9034
Buckman, Joshua E. J.
Naqvi, Syed A.
Aguirre, Elisa
Cardoso, Ana
Pilling, Stephen
Saunders, Rob
Funding for this research was provided by:
Wellcome Trust (201292/Z/16/Z)
Article History
Received: 26 August 2021
Accepted: 18 February 2022
First Online: 22 March 2022
Declarations
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: None to declare.
: This study was conducted as part of the North and Central East London IAPT Service Improvement and Research Network (NCEL IAPT SIRN). Permission was granted by the network for the data to be used for this analysis and data were hosted in accordance with locally agreed procedures. No further data on patients other than that already routinely collected by the services was used for this project and NHS ethical approval was not required for this study (confirmed by the Health Research Authority July 2020, Reference Number 81/81).
: All patients are informed at initial contact with the services that their anonymised data may be used for service improvement and research purposes and that this may include publication, and they are able to opt-out at this point. The identities of participants were unknown to the research team.
: All patients are informed at initial contact with the services that their anonymised data may be used for service improvement and research purposes and that this may include publication, and they are able to opt-out at this point. The identities of participants were unknown to the research team.