Carpenter, Lucy
Shoubridge, Andrew P.
Flynn, Erin
Lang, Catherine
Taylor, Steven L.
Papanicolas, Lito E.
Collins, Josephine
Gordon, David
Lynn, David J.
Crotty, Maria
Whitehead, Craig
Leong, Lex E. X.
Wesselingh, Steve L.
Ivey, Kerry
Inacio, Maria C.
Rogers, Geraint B.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Health and Medical Research Council (GNT2008625, APP119378, GNT1152268)
Hospital Research Foundation (MCF-27-2019)
Article History
Received: 17 November 2022
Accepted: 3 August 2023
First Online: 28 August 2023
Declarations
:
: Ethics approval for the GRACE study was obtained from the Southern Adelaide Clinical Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC/18/SAC/244). Participants provided informed consent themselves or where third-party consent was required, a legal guardian or family member with power of attorney provided informed consent on their behalf. ROSA has been reviewed and approved by the following Human Research Ethics Committees (HREC): University of South Australia HREC (Ref: 200487; October 2017), Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW Ref: EO2018/1/418; February 2018), the SA Department for Health & Wellbeing HREC (Ref: HREC/18/SAH/90; November 2018), the NSW Population and Health Services Research Ethics Committee (Ref: 2019/ETH12028; September 2019) and the Aboriginal Health Research Ethics Committee (AHREC Ref 04-20-895; September 2020). All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: RACF staff provided advice on how to engage with participants, families, and other staff members, and the formulation of the participant information data capture instrument. Although residents were not involved in the design, recruitment, conduct, reporting, or dissemination of this study directly, resident committees were involved through presentations at their respective sites. Ongoing feedback is provided to aged care providers and their participating residents via printed, electronic, and in-person communication.
: Not commissioned.
: CW is a board member of the aged care organisation Helping Hand. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.