Barnes, Joanne http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1522-8433
Butler, Rachael
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Auckland (3608425)
New Zealand Pharmacy & Education Fund (173)
Article History
First Online: 25 September 2020
Declarations
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: This work was supported by a University of Auckland New Staff Grant (Grant number 3608425), and a New Zealand Pharmacy and Education Fund (NZ PERF) Grant (Grant number 173) to JB.
: JB has received fees, honoraria and travel expenses from the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand (PSNZ) for preparation and delivery of continuing education material on complementary medicines (CMs) for pharmacists (2013, 2015); provided consultancy to the Pharmacy Council of New Zealand on Code of Ethics statements on CMs (unpaid) and competence standards (paid); was a member of the New Zealand Ministry of Health Natural Health Products (NHPs) Regulations Subcommittee on the Permitted Substances List (2016–2017) for which she received fees and travel expenses; leads the Herbal and Traditional Medicines Special Interest Group of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance. JB is a registered pharmacist in NZ and has a personal viewpoint that supports regulation for CMs. JB has authored/co-authored reference textbooks for which she has received royalties in respect of sales from Pharmaceutical Press and Elsevier. RB has no conflicts of interest to declare. The authors have no other conflicts of interest to declare that influence, or could be perceived as influencing, this work.
: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available as this is outside the terms of the ethics approval.
: Not applicable.
: JB was the principal investigator for this research: she designed the study and its tools, wrote the grant applications and obtained funding, wrote the ethics application, designed the coding frame, checked coding, analysed data, wrote the papers, and supervised and had overall responsibility for all aspects of the work. RB checked coding, undertook aspects of data analysis, and contributed to writing the papers. Both authors had complete access to the study data that support the publications.
: Ethical approval was given by the University of Auckland Human Participants Research Ethics Committee (Ref: 5008) on 12 September 2007.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: All authors consent to publication of this paper.