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Received: 13 July 2018

Accepted: 18 December 2018

First Online: 10 January 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethical approval has been received from the ethics boards of Simon Fraser University (2017 s0158, 2017 s0531, and 2018 s0127), the University of Saskatchewan (17–347), the <i>Centre de Recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal</i> (CÉR CHUM 16.397)<i>,</i> and Memorial University of Newfoundland (20180446). All participants will provide consent via online or a hard copy form.

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: Yan Kestens (NPI) and Benoit Thierry hold shares in Mobysens Technologies Inc., a spin-off company that markets the SenseDoc 2.0. The SenseDoc is a multisensor device used for mobility (GPS) and physical activity (accelerometer) tracking in the INTERACT study. The SenseDoc was filed as an invention in 2013 at Univalor (), the valorisation company affiliated with Université de Montréal and Centre de Recherche du CHUM.Yan Kestens (NPI) holds shares in Treksoft Solutions Inc., a spin-off company that markets an online survey platform. It hosts the VERITAS application (map-based survey tool) and eKogito (concept mapping application), two tools that will be used in the INTERACT project. VERITAS was filed as an invention in 2012 at Univalor, the valorisation company affiliated with Université de Montréal. eKogito was filed as an invention at Aligo () in 2013, through Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.Kevin Stanley (Co-I) holds shares in EthicaData Inc., a company marketing the Ethica Health smartphone app that will be used to collect data on mobility and physical activity through participants’ smartphones.Michael Cantinotti (Co-I) participated in the development of the eKogito application within his university, which has licensed the software through his technology transfer company. The author has no financial involvement with the third-party company that distributes the application.Daniel Fuller (PI) is an associate editor with BMC Public Health.

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