Powell, Tacita
Glozier, Nicholas
Conn, Katrina
Einboden, Rochelle
Buus, Niels
Caldwell, Patrick
Milton, Alyssa
Funding for this research was provided by:
Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course (CE200100025, CE200100025)
Australian Federal Department of Health (Early Psychosis Youth Services (EPYS) Evaluation, Early Psychosis Youth Services (EPYS) Evaluation)
Article History
Received: 12 September 2023
Accepted: 11 April 2024
First Online: 10 May 2024
Declarations
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: The study received ethical approval (<i>Protocol No. X17-0398 & HREC/17/RPAH/596)</i>, which was granted on 9 April 2018 by the Ethics Review Committee at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Local Health District (SLHD). All participants provided written informed consent. The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. Informed consent was obtained from all study participants. Additional parental/guardian consent was obtained for participants aged 12–18 years (noting the requirement for parental/guardian consent for 16–18 year olds was subject to clinician advice and state specific laws).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: AM (BSc, PGDip Psych, MAppSc Health Psych, PhD): is a psychologist and research fellow with Australian and international experience working with EIPS and adult mental health services. TP (BSc, MBBS, M Psychiatry, M Clinical Family Therapy) is a child and adolescent psychiatrist with experience working in child, youth (EIPS) and adult mental health services. KC (BSc, Bed) is a teacher and lived experience researcher with a lived experience of using EIPS. RE (BScN, MN, PhD) is a nurse and qualitative researcher specializing in critical social theory. NB BN, MScN, PhD) is a mental health nurse and professor in qualitative research and qualitative research methodology, with a focus on critical health research, ethnographic theories and methods. PC is a medical student. NG (MA, MBBS, MSc, MRCPsych, FRANZCP, PhD) is a consultant psychiatrist specialising in epidemiology, trials and health services research.