Shields, Gemma E. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4869-7524
Rogers, Katherine D. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0458-5715
Young, Alys http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8551-5078
Dedotsi, Sofia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5461-3801
Davies, Linda M. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-3559
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health Research (12/136/79)
Article History
First Online: 16 January 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: This study was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Services Research and Delivery Programme, Grant Award Number: 12/136/79. This report/article presents independent research commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health.
: AY declares funding from the National Deaf Children’s Society, as well as current and previous funding from the AHRC, MRC, GCRF, NIHR and NHS England within the last 3 years, related to research in the Deaf population. LMD declares funding from the MRC, ESRC, NIHR, Department of Health and Cancer Research UK, some of which relates to research in the Deaf population. KR declares current funding from the NIHR and National Deaf Children’s Society, as well as funding from the AHRC, Department for Education and NIHR in the last 3 years, related to research in the Deaf population. GES and SD declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study performed a secondary analysis of existing data and thus no participants were recruited. In the prior study, from which the data were taken, ethics approval was received from the University of Manchester Research Ethics Committee (REC) (reference number: 14183). 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. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: In the prior study, all participants who completed the EQ5D-5L BSL gave individual informed consent and that they gave consent for secondary data analysis of anonymised results, ethics approval was received from the University of Manchester Research Ethics Committee (REC) (reference number: 14183).
: The datasets analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.