Stevens, Gonneke W. J. M. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9929-7972
Veldkamp, Carolien
Harakeh, Zeena
Laninga-Wijnen, Lydia
Funding for this research was provided by:
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (431-09-027)
Article History
Received: 9 October 2019
Accepted: 24 January 2020
First Online: 7 February 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The SNARE study was approved by the Internal Review Board (IRB) of Utrecht University.
: Parents who did not wish their children to participate in the study were asked to indicate this and students were made aware that they could cease their participation at any time (passive consent). During the years data were collected (2011–2013), passive consent was quite the “standard” in the Netherlands for questionnaire data. Also, prior work has not found any harmful effects of asking peer-nomination questions (see for instance, Mayeux, Underwood, & Risser, 2007). Therefore, and in order to receive a high response rate (which is necessary for enhancing the reliability of peer-nomination data), it was decided to work with passive consent from the parents while emphasizing the possibility of opting out during each measurement wave. This approach was approved by the IRB of Utrecht University.