Weber, Kari A.
Carmichael, Suzan L.
Yang, Wei
Tinker, Sarah C.
Shaw, Gary M.
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U01DD001033)
Article History
Received: 7 January 2020
Accepted: 16 August 2020
First Online: 24 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: We have adhered to ethical standards in this work and obtained Institutional Review Board approval for use of human subjects’ data. The Institutional Review Boards of each center provided approval for the NBDPS (Arkansas, California, Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Utah). Our institution’s ethics boards (California Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (Protocol 13-04-1172) and Stanford University IRB (protocol 17085) approved the use of the data analyzed in this paper. Verbal informed consent was obtained at the initiation of the telephone interview for each woman. Verbal consent to participate in this multi-centered study (in lieu of written consent) was approved by each institution’s Institutional Review Board based on the rationale that: 1) the study involved a telephone interview only; 2) given the study’s large size (~ 50,000 women) the costs to obtain written consent were prohibitive; and 3) request for written consent would be an additional burden to study subjects. The computer-assisted interview process did not proceed unless the woman consented to be interviewed.
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: All authors have no conflict of interest to declare.