Michaelson, Valerie
Pickett, William
King, Nathan
Gardner, Pauli
Ferro, Mark A.
Costello, Jean
Leatherdale, Scott T.
Patte, Karen A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canada Research Chairs
Health Canada
Article History
Received: 15 September 2024
Accepted: 24 November 2025
First Online: 6 December 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures received ethics approval from the University of Waterloo (ORE#30118), Brock University (REB#18–099), and participating school boards, and were conducted in acocordaince with the Declaration of Helsinki.All students attending participating schools were invited to participate using active-information passive-consent parental permission protocols. Parents were informed of the study and could withdraw their child by contacting study staff. Students not withdrawn from the study by their parents were considered eligible to participate. All participating students had informed parental consent and provided informed assent.
: N/A.
: KAP was on the Editorial Board of BMC Public Health and a Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Adolescent Mental Health. The authors have no other conflicts of interest to report.