Koerner, Sarah http://orcid.org/0009-0000-6508-6915
Staginnus, Marlene
Cornwell, Harriet
Smaragdi, Areti
González-Madruga, Karen
Pauli, Ruth
Rogers, Jack C.
Gao, Yidian
Chester, Sally
Townend, Sophie
Bernhard, Anka
Martinelli, Anne
Kohls, Gregor
Raschle, Nora Maria
Konrad, Kerstin
Stadler, Christina
Freitag, Christine M.
De Brito, Stephane A.
Fairchild, Graeme
Funding for this research was provided by:
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013, grant number 602407)
Economic and Social Research Council (ES/P000630/1)
Medical Research Council (MR/N0137941/1)
Article History
Accepted: 15 February 2024
First Online: 1 April 2024
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: This study was supported in part by grant ES/P000630/1 for the SWDTP awarded to the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth and West of England (UWE) from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)/UKRI and grant MR/N0137941/1 for the GW4 BIOMED MRC DTP awarded to the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter from the Medical Research Council (MRC)/UKRI. These grants funded PhD studentships to Marlene Staginnus, Harriet Cornwell and Sophie Townend. The FemNAT-CD study was funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013, grant number 602407, coordinator Christine M. Freitag).
: Christina Stadler receives royalties for a book on aggression. Christine M. Freitag receives royalties for books on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Depression. Stephane A. De Brito has received speaker fees from the Child Mental Health Centre and the Centre for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging. N.M. Raschle receives funding from the Hochschulmedizin Zurich (HMZ, STRESS), the University of Zurich Research Priority Program ‘Adaptive Brain Circuits in Development and Learning (URPP AdaBD)’ and the Swiss National Science Foundation (105314_207624). All other authors report no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest.
: The original study protocols were approved by the relevant ethical committees at each site prior to the start of data collection: the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of Goethe University Frankfurt for the Frankfurt site, RWTH Aachen University Hospital (EK027/14) for the Aachen site, the Ethics Commission Northwest and Central Switzerland (EKNZ: 336/13) for the Basel site, and the Southampton University Ethics Committee (ERGO Number: 18970) and National Health Service Research Ethics Committee (NRES Committee West Midlands, Edgbaston; REC reference 13/WM/0483) for the UK sites (Southampton and Birmingham). For the current study ethical approval was obtained from the University of Bath Psychology Research Ethics Committee (Ethics reference: 19-297).
: During the data collection for the FemNAT-CD study, at German-speaking sites (Basel, Frankfurt, Aachen), youths aged 18 years provided informed consent, while younger participants provided assent and their parent/caregiver informed consent. At the UK sites (Southampton, Birmingham), informed consent was obtained from youths aged 16 years or over, whereas those younger than this provided assent and informed consent was obtained from their parents or caregivers.