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Authors
Carlson, Samantha J.
Puca, Carla
Wood-Kenney, Paige
Kickett, Justin
Swift, Valerie
Attwell, Katie
Blyth, Christopher C.
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Health, Government of Western Australia (DOH2020-6075, DOH2020-6075, DOH2020-6075)
Future Health Research and Innovation Fund COVID-19 Focus Grant (FHRIFGCOVID19, FHRIFGCOVID19, FHRIFGCOVID19)
Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Catalyst Grant
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Article History
Received: 19 September 2024
Accepted: 20 November 2024
First Online: 27 January 2025
Competing interests
: Christopher C. Blyth was former co-chair of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) and former co-chair of the ATAGI COVID-19 working group. CCB is supported by a NHMRC EL2 Investigator Grant (2020-24; 1173163). Katie Attwell leads the “Coronavax” project, which is funded by the Government of Western Australia. She leads “MandEval: Effectiveness and Consequences of Australia’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates” funded by the Medical Research Future Fund of the Australian Government (2019107). All funds were paid to her institution. Funders are not involved in the conceptualisation, design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of manuscripts. Other authors declare no competing interests.
: Ethics approval was granted by the Child and Adolescent Health Services Human Research Ethics Committee (reference number: RGS0000004457) on 22 December 2020 and the Western Australian Aboriginal Health Ethics Committee (reference number: HREC1127) on 17 March 2022. This research complies with all relevant ethical guidelines, including the institutional protocols for research involving human participants and the Declaration of Helsinki. The ethics approval covered all aspects of the study, including participant recruitment, data collection, and analysis. All procedures were conducted in line with these regulations to ensure the protection of participants’ rights, confidentiality, and informed consent throughout the research.
: Informed written consent was obtained from all participants at the start of each Yarning Workshop. We informed each participant of the purpose of the study, their rights, and how to withdraw the study should they wish to. Participants were assured that their anonymity and confidentiality would be strictly protected and that their data would not be made available to people outside of the research team. The consent covered participation in the study, the use of collected data for research purposes, and permission to publish the findings. At the conclusion of the yarn, participants were provided with a $20 AUD gift voucher to a supermarket as a demonstration of researcher gratitude.
