Conigrave, James H.
Lee, K. S. Kylie
Dobbins, Timothy
Wilson, Scott
Padarian, José
Ivers, Rowena
Morley, Kirsten
Haber, Paul S.
Vnuk, Julia
Marshall, Kushani
Conigrave, Kate
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Health and Medical Research Council,Australia (1155320)
National Health and Medical Research Council (1105339)
Centre of Research Excellence in Indigenous Health and Alcohol (1117198)
Article History
Received: 12 January 2024
Accepted: 18 June 2024
First Online: 15 July 2024
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was obtained from eight ethics committees: the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW Ethics Committee (NSW; project 1217/16), Central Australian Human Research Ethics Committee (project CA-17-2842), Human Research Ethics Committee of Northern Territory Department of Health and Menzies School of Health Research (project 2017–2737), Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service Human Research Ethics Committee (project 17/QCQ/9), Far North Queensland Human Research Ethics Committee (project 17/QCH/45–1143), the Aboriginal Health Research Ethics Committee, South Australia (SA; project 04–16–694), St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee (project LRR 036/17) and Western Australian Aboriginal Health Ethics Committee (WA; project 779). As the intervention was applied at the service-level and we used historical deidentified patient data, obtaining individual patient consent was not feasible. Instead, we received consent to participate from the participating services’ Chief Executive Officers. We declared this to all the above ethics committees as part of the approved ethics applications. Additionally, the Far North Queensland Human Research Ethics Committee granted an explicit waiver: “Consideration into the justification provided for the use of patient data for this research without obtaining participant consent was found to be sound and compliant with the requirements of the National Statement on the Ethical Conduct of Research 2007…”.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.