Ji, Daniel
Rana, Monica
Coronel-Villalobos, Mauricio
Hammami, Nour
Saewyc, Elizabeth
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canada First Research Excellence Fund (AWD-025998)
Article History
Received: 10 April 2025
Accepted: 11 July 2025
First Online: 2 September 2025
Declarations
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: Three levels of consent were required before students could participate in the HBSC study (i.e., school jurisdictions, school principals, then parental and/or student consent) as approved by ethics boards at the Public Health Agency of Canada (REB-2013–0022) and Queen’s University Research Ethics Board (6027003). This study did not involve experiments on humans or the use of human tissue samples; however, this study did involve the analysis of survey data and therefore adhered to the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to collecting survey data.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.