Wagner, Adam P. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9101-3477
Carroll, Cliodhna
White, Simon R. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8642-7037
Watson, Peter
Spoudeas, Helen A.
Hawkins, Michael M.
Walker, David A.
Clare, Isabel C. H.
Holland, Anthony J.
Ring, Howard http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6213-781X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust
Article History
Received: 13 December 2019
Accepted: 11 June 2020
First Online: 8 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research ethics committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or compatible ethical standards.
: Approval for this study was given by the Cambridgeshire 2 Research Ethics Committee and UK National Information Governance Board.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study who had capacity to consent. Participants lacking capacity were included where agreement was gained from family or carers, as required by the Mental Capacity Act (England and Wales) 2005.
: The research reported in this paper was carried out in a cohort of brain tumour survivors and their siblings that has previously been reported on in: Carroll C, Watson P, Spoudeas HA, et al. Prevalence, associations, and predictors of apathy in adult survivors of infantile (<5 years of age) posterior fossa brain tumours. Neuro-Oncology. 2013; 15: 497–505.
: The datasets generated and analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.