Article History
Received: 23 May 2019
Accepted: 18 December 2019
First Online: 29 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Data for the CCHS-MH were collected on a voluntary basis using computer assisted interviewing in person or by telephone by Statistics Canada under the provisions of the Statistics Act. Statistics Canada preceded this data collection with an ethical review. CCHS-MH respondents verbally consented to respond to the survey and were asked for permission to share the information they provided with Statistic Canada’s partners, which included the Public Health Agency of Canada. This article is based on data from the existing share file and thus the project did not undergo ethics review.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare they have no competing interests. Wendy Hovdestad is an Associate Editor for BMC Public Health.