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Article History

Received: 10 April 2024

Accepted: 23 August 2024

First Online: 2 September 2024

Declarations

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: The Research Ethics Board at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, which acts as the Board of Record for clinical research projects at Lakehead University, has reviewed and approved all study materials (file #100251). Informed consent will be obtained from all participants; a detailed verbal and written description of the study will be provided and participants will complete a consent form.

: N/A. We have not included any details, images, or videos relating to an individual person. ARM will provide a model consent form upon request.

: The majority of the authors have no potential or actual competing interests to declare. The principal investigator (ARM) recently acquired intellectual property ownership rights for the JoyPop™ app (in June 2024). Prior to this time, intellectual property rights were owned by another researcher/institution. ARM did not own any intellectual property rights when applying for funding for this study, when creating the protocol, or when initiating the study. To mitigate risk related to ARM’s new intellectual property ownership rights, ARM will not be involved in collecting or analyzing the data and will consult with co-investigators throughout the study.