Halstead, Patricia
Arbuckle, Rob http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0345-2523
Marshall, Chris
Zimmerman, Brenda
Bolton, Kate
Gelotte, Cathy
Funding for this research was provided by:
Johnson and Johnson
Article History
First Online: 20 December 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Rob Arbuckle is an employee of Adelphi Values, a health outcomes agency commissioned to conduct this research. At the time of the study, Chris Marshall and Kate Bolton were also employees of Adelphi Values. Patricia Halstead, Brenda Zimmerman, and Cathy Gelotte are employees or former employees of McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a Division of Johnson & Johnson Consumer, Inc., and hold stock or stock options in Johnson & Johnson. Cathy Gelotte has received consultant fees and an honorarium from the Consumer Health Products Association. The authors have no other conflicts of interest regarding the content of this article.
: The study was approved and overseen by Copernicus (MAP2-11-129), a centralized independent review board in the USA. 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.
: All children provided written assent, and all parents provided written informed consent for the child to be involved. Separate written informed consent was obtained from those parents who were interviewed.