Kosgolla, Janaka V.
Smith, Douglas C.
Begum, Shahana
Reinhart, Crystal A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Illinois Department of Human Services’ Division of Substance Use Prevention and Recovery (43CAZ03292)
Article History
Received: 17 July 2023
Accepted: 15 September 2023
First Online: 21 September 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The Illinois Youth Survey is approved by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institutional Review Board (Protocol #11126). Schools send parental notifications twice before data collection, allowing parents to opt out their students, and all students who participated agreed to participate through a passive youth consent at the beginning of the survey. This statewide study obtained a parental consent waiver from the IRB at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Office for the Protection of Research Subjects). This means that the IRB waived the requirement for parents’ informed consent. However, schools and parents were given prior notifications about the survey and were allowed to withdraw their students from participation if they decided to do so. The study does not deliver incentives to individual students or schools. Furthermore, all the procedures in this study followed the regulations and guidelines specified by the Declaration of Helsinki, which was given by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institutional Review Board (Protocol #11126). Ethical standards were strictly adhered to during all phases of this research. The study did not involve any new collection of personal data, and all the statistical analyses and data manipulation were conducted on anonymized data.
: Not applicable.