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Power, Rosalie http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9434-3941
Akhter, Rahena http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9723-7343
Muhit, Mohammad http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6313-4343
Wadud, Sabrina
Heanoy, Eamin
Karim, Tasneem http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-8409
Badawi, Nadia
Khandaker, Gulam http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0661-4113
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation (Project Grant PG3615, Career Development Grant CDG04117)
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Received: 17 May 2018
Accepted: 17 December 2018
First Online: 15 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Informed verbal and written consent was obtained for all individual participants included in the study. Verbal consent was obtained for all minors (i.e. <16y) then written consent was obtained from their parent or legal guardian. In cases where adolescents were unable to provide verbal consent (i.e. due to severe communication impairment or perceived lack of capacity) then consent was only obtained from the parent or legal guardian and data was only collected as proxy data. No data was collected in instances that adolescents indicated objection to participation, even in instances of parental consent. In cases of illiteracy, written consent was obtained by thumbprint. This study has ethical approval from the Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC/NREC/2013–2016/1165) and University of Sydney Human Research Ethics Committee (2016/646). All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of these institutes and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
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