Stevely, Abigail K. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5637-5245
Buykx, Penny
Brown, Jamie
Beard, Emma
Michie, Susan
Meier, Petra S.
Holmes, John
Funding for this research was provided by:
Public Health Research Programme (15/63/01)
National Institute for Health Research
Society for Study of Addiction
Cancer Research UK (C1417/A22962)
Article History
Received: 6 July 2017
Accepted: 30 January 2018
First Online: 14 February 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Informed consent is given verbally by ATS participants after interviewers explain the study and give assurance that it is being conducted in line with the Market Research Society Code of Conduct. Ethical approval for the wider Alcohol Toolkit Study and for this evaluation of the UK lower risk drinking guidelines were granted by the University College London ethics committee and the University of Sheffield ethics committee respectively.
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: AKS: Has no competing interests to declare.PB: Was commissioned by Public Health England to provide an epidemiological modelling report which informed development of the new UK lower risk drinking guidelines.JB: Has received unrestricted research funding from Pfizer for studies relating to smoking cessation.SM: Has no competing interests to declare.PM: Was advisor to (and previous member of) the UK Chief Medical Officers’ Guidelines Development Group and was commissioned by Public Health England to provide an epidemiological modelling report which informed development of the new UK lower risk drinking guidelines.JH: Was advisor to (and previous member of) the UK Chief Medical Officers’ Guidelines Development Group and was commissioned by Public Health England to provide an epidemiological modelling report which informed development of the new UK lower risk drinking guidelines.
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