Josan, Chitmandeep
Shiplo, Samantha
Fusch, Gerhard
Raha, Sandeep http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7307-3292
Shea, Alison K.
Article History
Received: 19 May 2022
Revised: 20 August 2022
Accepted: 7 September 2022
First Online: 4 October 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This research protocol (Project number: 8152) was approved by the Hamilton Integrated Research Ethics Board (HiREB). HiREB represents the institutions of Hamilton Health Sciences, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Research St. Joseph’s-Hamilton, and the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University and operates in compliance with and is constituted in accordance with the requirements of The Tri-Council Policy Statement on Ethical Conduct of Research Involving Humans; The International Conference on Harmonization of Good Clinical Practices; Part C Division 5 of the Food and Drug Regulations of Health Canada, and the provisions of the Ontario Personal Health Information Protection Act 2004 and its applicable Regulations; For studies conducted at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, HiREB complies with the Health Ethics Guide of the Catholic Alliance of Canada. All subjects provided consent to participate in this study.