Horwood, Jeremy https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7092-4960
Chalder, Melanie
Ainsworth, Ben
Denison-Day, James
de Vocht, Frank
Elwenspoek, Martha M. C.
Craggs, Pippa
Denholm, Rachel
Sterne, Jonathan
Rice, Cathy
Miller, Sascha
Stuart, Beth
Little, Paul
Moore, Michael
Willcox, Merlin
Macleod, John
Gullford, Martin
Morton, Kate
Towler, Lauren
Francis, Nick
AmlĂ´t, Richard
Yardley, Lucy
Funding for this research was provided by:
UKRI (CV220-009)
NIHR ARC West (P512)
NIHR HPRU in Behavioural Science and Evaluation (P512)
Article History
Received: 10 March 2021
Accepted: 11 March 2021
First Online: 9 April 2021
Declarations
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: Provisional ethics approval was originally obtained from the NHS Health Research Authority, Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds West Research Ethics Committee (20/YH/0261) on 14 August 2020, followed by full approval on 2 September 2020.Practices which support the study by promoting the Germ Defence website will, in doing so, have been deemed to have given implicit consent to participate. We will not be seeking individual patent consent as the study requires no deviation from usual care and clinical outcomes will be assessed from anonymised routinely collected NHS patient record data.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.