Rojas, Natalia K
De Stavola, Bianca L
Norris, Tom
Cortina-Borja, Mario
Nugawela, Manjula D
Hargreaves, Dougal
Dalrymple, Emma
McOwat, Kelsey
Simmons, Ruth
Stephenson, Terence
Shafran, Roz
Pereira, Snehal M Pinto
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Funding for this research was provided by:
NIHR and UKRI (COVLT0022, COVLT0022)
UK Medical Research Council (MR/P020372/1)
Article History
Received: 9 May 2023
Accepted: 15 April 2024
First Online: 20 June 2024
Declarations
:
: Terence Stephenson is Chair of the Health Research Authority and therefore recused himself from the Research Ethics Application. Dougal Hargreaves had a part-time secondment as Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser from September 2020 to September 2021, whereby his salary for 2 days per week was paid by the Department for Education (England) to Imperial College London. All remaining authors have no conflicts of interest.
: Ethical approval was provided by the Yorkshire & The Humber - South Yorkshire Research Ethics Committee (REC reference: 21/YH/0060; IRAS project ID:293495). Public Health England (now UKHSA) has legal permission, provided by Regulation 3 of The Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002, to process patient confidential information for national surveillance of communicable diseases. Parents/carers were sent an invitation by post sent through PHE/UKHSA on behalf of the research team with a link to the website with the relevant information sheets and consent forms and they had the opportunity to ask any questions about the study. Parents/carers of CYP under 16 years of age were asked to complete an online parent/carer consent form. The young person was also asked to complete an online assent form to indicate their agreement. Consent was asked online from 16–17-year-olds (using the Young Person Consent Form) in line with Health Research Authority recommended processes. Informed consent was obtained from all participants and/or their legal guardian. All experiments were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations (such as the Declaration of Helsinki).
: Not applicable. The present manuscript does not contain data from any individual person.