Hatfield, Megan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-135X
Falkmer, Marita
Falkmer, Torbjörn
Ciccarelli, Marina
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism (3.014RC)
Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship
Article History
First Online: 10 October 2017
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: MH developed the BOOST-A and was also the first author of the manuscript which describes the effectiveness of the BOOST-A. The design of the trial has taken this into account in order to minimize bias.
: All procedures performed in this study were granted formal approval from the Curtin University Human Research Ethics Committee (approval number HR110/2014), and by the Catholic Education Offices and the Departments of Education in Queensland, Western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania. Informed consent was obtained from all adult participants in the study. For participants under 18 years of age, their parents provided written informed consent and the adolescent provided written informed assent. Names of participants reported in this paper have been replaced with a pseudonym.