Marks, Yanara http://orcid.org/0009-0003-0408-4117
Hoch, Jeffrey S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4880-4281
Heath, Anna http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7263-4251
Pechlivanoglou, Petros http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5090-7936
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Child Health Evaluative Sciences program at the Hospital for Sick Children through an unrestricted educational grant from PricewaterhouseCoopers
Canada Research Chair in Statistical Trial Design; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (RGPIN-2021-03366)
Article History
Accepted: 11 March 2024
First Online: 12 April 2024
Declarations
:
: This research activity was made possible with support from the Child Health Evaluative Sciences program at the Hospital for Sick Children through an unrestricted educational grant from PricewaterhouseCoopers. Anna Heath is funded by Canada Research Chair in Statistical Trial Design; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (award No. RGPIN-2021-03366).
: Yanara Marks, Jeffrey S. Hoch, Anna Heath, and Petros Pechlivanoglou have no competing interests or other interests that might be perceived to influence the results and/or discussion reported in this paper.
: The Hospital for Sick Children granted Research Ethics Board (REB#1000081313) Secondary Use Approval.
: All participants were invited to attend the focus group discussions and attended voluntarily.
: Participants who did not consent for publication were invited to leave the discussion.
: De-identified focus group discussion data have been provided as supplementary material.
: Not applicable.
: PP and AH conceived the research idea. YM, PP, and AH designed the focus group sessions. JH facilitated the focus groups. YM transcribed the data and drafted the manuscript. PP, JH, and AH reviewed and edited the manuscript. All authors approved the final version for publication.