Weziak-Bialowolska, Dorota http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2711-2283
Lee, Matthew T.
Bialowolski, Piotr
Chen, Ying
VanderWeele, Tyler J.
McNeely, Eileen
Article History
Received: 12 February 2022
Accepted: 19 July 2022
First Online: 2 August 2022
Declarations
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: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Dr McNeely and Dr VanderWeele report receiving grants and personal fees from Aetna Inc. Dr McNeely reports receiving grants from the Levi Strauss Foundation, she also reports serving as director of SHINE at Harvard (Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise); support is made possible through SHINE from multiple companies. Dr VanderWeele reports receiving grants from the John Templeton Foundation. Dr Weziak-Bialowolska reports receiving a grant from the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014–2021. The research findings represent the perspective of the authors and do not reflect the opinions or endorsement of any organization.
: All protocols for this study were reviewed and approved by Harvard Longwood Campus Institutional Review Board (protocol no. IRB18-1115). Research team received de-identified data that, from the one hand, prevented any identification of participants, but, on the other hand, allowed merging survey data, medical insurance claims data, and selected personal information from personnel files. The research team worked with the organization on the ethical aspects of research design to make sure that participation in the study was voluntary, confidential, and conditional on the informed written consent that was collected from each participant. The informed consent included an authorization to share with the research team the de-identified data from the survey, medical insurance claims (selected data) and personnel files (selected data).