Khanal, Safal http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3755-8046
Rathod, Sachi Nitinkumar
Phillips, John R. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6976-4645
Article History
Received: 11 June 2020
Accepted: 17 November 2020
First Online: 24 November 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest or commercial relationship in relation to this work.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors affirm that all participants provided informed consent for publication of the study findings. The study does not report identifying information for any participants.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Human Participants Ethics Committee of the University of Auckland (ref: 017982).
: No animals were used in this research.
: This study was presented in part at the 17th International Myopia Conference, Tokyo, Japan, September 2019. Author SK was the recipient of a University of Auckland PhD scholarship funded by CooperVision Inc. Author SNR was supported by a summer research scholarship awarded by the Faculty of Medical and Health Science, University of Auckland.