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Sharma, Eesha
Vaidya, Nilakshi
Iyengar, Udita
Zhang, Yuning
Holla, Bharath
Purushottam, Meera
Chakrabarti, Amit
Fernandes, Gwen Sascha
Heron, Jon
Hickman, Matthew
Desrivieres, Sylvane
Kartik, Kamakshi
Jacob, Preeti
Rangaswamy, Madhavi
Bharath, Rose Dawn
Barker, Gareth
Orfanos, Dimitri Papadopoulos
Ahuja, Chirag
Murthy, Pratima
Jain, Sanjeev
Varghese, Mathew
Jayarajan, Deepak
Kumar, Keshav
Thennarasu, Kandavel
Basu, Debashish
Subodh, B. N.
Kuriyan, Rebecca
Kurpad, Sunita Simon
Kalyanram, Kumaran
Krishnaveni, Ghattu
Krishna, Murali
Singh, Rajkumar Lenin
Singh, L. Roshan
Kalyanram, Kartik
Toledano, Mireille
Schumann, Gunter
Benegal, Vivek
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Medical Research (Sanction order, letter no. ICMR/MRC-UK/3/M/2015-NCD-I)
Medical Research Council (RCUK | Medical Research Council MR/N000390/1)
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Article History
Received: 30 August 2019
Accepted: 26 November 2019
First Online: 2 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The cVEDA study received clearance from the Health Ministry’s Screening Committee, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, and ethics approvals at all participating centres in India and in the UK. The study also has an internal ethics advisory board that reviews any ethical issues that arise and supports recruitment centres in their operations. Participants are recruited after written informed consent. In the case of minors (<18 years of age), informed consent is taken from the legal guardian (usually parents) and assent from the child/adolescent. Consent for being contacted for follow-up is taken at the time of baseline recruitment. Consent is taken again before initiating follow-up assessments. Separate consent forms are maintained for behavioral assessments, neuroimaging and biological samples (blood, urine). Each participant recruited into the study is assigned a unique study identification number, following a ‘double anonymization’ procedure. All study data is thereby delinked from any personal identifying information. If any medical/psychosocial concerns are identified in a participant, appropriate referrals are arranged after discussion with the participant/legal guardian. All MRI scans conducted as part of the study are reviewed by a neuroradiologist. The reports are handed over to the participants/legal guardians and, when needed, appropriate neurological/neurosurgical referrals made.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
