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Article History

Received: 15 December 2021

Accepted: 21 September 2022

First Online: 12 October 2022

Change Date: 8 January 2023

Change Type: Update

Change Details: This article has been updated to amend the metadata of an author name.

Declarations

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: Ethical approval for the study was provided by the London School of Economics and Political Science Research Ethics Committee (ref # 1174b). Participants gave informed consent before taking part. The procedures for obtaining informed consent were discussed and agreed with the ethics committee. We confirm that all methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.

: Not applicable.

: CM is an employee of Kooth plc. CM contributed to the background section on Kooth, was involved in discussions around study design and procedures and facilitated access to Kooth.com for recruitment and data linkage. CM did not have access to the survey data collected and was not involved in the analysis and production of research findings beyond discussion of the findings.

: The other authors were commissioned by Kooth plc to conduct the study and may be commissioned for further work in the future.