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Received: 7 November 2022

Accepted: 1 December 2022

First Online: 28 January 2023

Declarations

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: This research complies with the NHMRC National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2018) (‘the National Statement’), and is informed by other relevant guidelines such as; the NHMRC Road Map 3: A Strategic Framework for Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Through Research (2018), the AH&MRC Ethics Guidelines: Key Principles v2 (2020); Good Clinical Practice guidelines [, , –]. BOOSt has been approved by the Aboriginal Health & Medical Research Council (AH&MRC NSW) Ethics Committee (1448/18), the Mater Misericordia Limited Human Research Ethics Committee (AM/MML/41511), the Joint University of Wollongong and Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District Health & Medical Human Research Ethics Committee (2019/ETH03796), University of Queensland Human Research Ethics Committee (2018001973/HREC/18/MHS/107), and the Charles Darwin University Human Research Ethics Committee (H19054).All participants recruited to the study will be provided with the relevant PICF (as described above, according to various data collections). Recruited participants will be required to provide documented consent according to the National Statement [] (including written, email, or online) except in the case of online staff surveys where implied consent is recommended; and where a waiver for use of clinical data is appropriate. For routinely collected data, we have a waiver of consent approved for all cohorts of women. The waiver applies to all participants for whom clinical records and cost data will be obtained, however, for mother’s survey participants we will ask for consent to use their survey and their clinical records data. In the case of women minors, we will follow guidance included in the National Statement (p. 65) asserting that young women can be invited to consent when determined to be “mature enough to understand and consent and are not vulnerable through immaturity in ways that warrant additional consent from a parent or guardian”. All consent methods as described have been approved by all relevant Ethics Committees.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.