Weinrabe, Angé http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9880-4450
Tran, James
Hickie, Ian B. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8832-9895
Article History
Received: 11 April 2023
Accepted: 6 November 2023
First Online: 28 November 2023
Competing interests
: AW holds 100% shares in and is the Founder and Director of My Sound Wellbeing Pty Ltd, a health software company offering personalized music as sleep intervention to the public; she is also the Founder of Non-Profit, Giving Education Meaning Ltd. (GEM), a registered Australian charity supporting youth and community development in Australia. AW does not receive a salary from either companies or the Charity. At the time of print, AW is a Ph.D. student at the University of Sydney and receives a Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship through the University of Sydney. AW is a sessional academic at the University of Sydney. JT declares no conflict and has no financial interests in AW organizations. IBH declares no financial interests in AW’s organizations. Author B has completed his PhD at The University of NSW, Australia, and is a full-time employee of the Australian Government. IBH is the Co-Director of Health and Policy at the Brain and Mind Centre (BMC) University of Sydney, Australia. The BMC operates early-intervention youth services at Camperdown under contract to Headspace. IBH has previously led community-based and pharmaceutical industry-supported (Wyeth, Eli Lily, Servier, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Janssen Cilag) projects focused on the identification and better management of anxiety and depression. He is the Chief Scientific Advisor to, and a 3.2% equity shareholder in, InnoWell Pty Ltd, which aims to transform mental health services through the use of innovative technologies.
: 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. The University of Sydney, Australia’s Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) approved the Youth Choice Study (2015/804) on 29 February 2016, and the study methods and data confidentiality were carried out in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. The HREC is constituted and operates in accordance with the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2007), NHMRC and Universities Australia Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research (2007) and the CPMP/ICH Note for Guidance on Good Clinical Practice.
: All participants were issued Participants Information Statements (PIS) as part of the recruitment process to be informed about the study. Upon receiving all the necessary information contained in the PIS, participants were asked to give consent, then asked to sign their Participants Consent Form (PCF). All data was de-identified during statistical analysis. All data of individual participants identified. Participants received a monetary voucher for actualized payouts of their economic task to the value of AU$17–$20 each.