Newton, Nicola C.
Stapinski, Lexine
Slade, Tim
Champion, Katrina E.
Barrett, Emma L.
Chapman, Catherine
Smout, Anna
Lawler, Siobhan
Mather, Marius
Castellanos-Ryan, Natalie
Conrod, Patricia J.
Teesson, Maree
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Health and Medical Research Council (APP1124958, APP1004744)
Article History
Received: 14 December 2017
Accepted: 8 May 2018
First Online: 21 May 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the University of New South Wales Human Research Ethics Committee, Australia (HC11274; HC16881). Due to ethical requirement, in the original trial, private schools required written, informed consent from parents (passive) and students (active) for students to participate. Public schools required active written, informed consent from both parties.As to the present study (the long-term follow-up), all participants provided active informed consent before participating in follow-up surveys. All participants are now over the age of 16. Recruitment for the present study began in July, 2017.
: MT & NN are two of the developers of the Climate Schools programs and PC is the developer of the Preventure program. MT & NN are the Directors of Climate Schools Pty Ltd. which distributes the Climate Schools programs on a not for profit basis.
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