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Article History

Received: 13 November 2023

Accepted: 26 January 2024

First Online: 9 February 2024

Declarations

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: The study was approved by the institutional research ethics board at the lead research site (The Hospital for Sick Children, REB #1000070222) as well as St. Michael’s Hospital (20–080) and participating Province of Ontario Neurodevelopmental Disorder network sites including Holland Bloorview Rehabilitation Hospital (REB #0086), McMaster Children’s Hospital (REB #10948), Queen’s University (REB #6005107), and The Lawson Research Institute (Western University; HSREB #115934). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

: Not applicable.

: EA has received consultation fees from Roche and Quadrant, research funding from Roche and in-kind support from Amo Pharma. She has received book royalties from APPI and Springer, and editorial honoraria from Wiley. She holds a patent for the device, “Tully” (formally “Anxiety Meter”) and in-kind support for all Province of Ontario Neurodevelopmental Network data from the Ontario Brain Institute during the conduct of the study. CSB has received grants from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada, Physician Services Inc, The Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children, University of Toronto and Hospital for Sick Children, The Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Walmart Canada Regional Community on addressing food insecurity in children admitted to hospital. AC has received grants from the Hospital for Sick Children and Leong Centre for Healthy Children. JC has received grants from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ontario Brain Institute, and the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation. DJK has received grants from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Hospital for Sick Children, Gary Hurvitz Centre for Brain and Mental Health, the University of Toronto, and conference/meeting attendance support from the Canadian Paediatric Society and the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. SM has received grants from Cundill Centre for Youth Depression at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, book royalties from Springer Publishers, and grants from Canadian Institutes of Health Research outside the submitted work. She has received research support as the holder of the TD Bank Financial Group Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. KTC has received grants from The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research. They also acted as a statistical consultant for Unity Health and University of Toronto and conference/meeting attendance support from Merit Network. All other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.