Clinton-McHarg, Tara
Gonzalez, Sharleen
Milner, Sharin
Sherker, Shauna
Kingsland, Melanie
Lecathelinais, Christophe
Hall, Alix
Doran, Chris
Wiggers, John
Wolfenden, Luke
Funding for this research was provided by:
NIB Foundation (Multi-Year Partnership Grant)
Cancer Council NSW (PG 16-05)
NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (APP1128348)
Heart Foundation Future Leadership Fellowship (101175)
Article History
Received: 11 November 2018
Accepted: 18 April 2019
First Online: 14 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All aspects of the trial, including the procedure used to obtain participant consent, was approved by the University of Newcastle Human Research Ethics Committee (H-2013-0429). Verbal informed consent was obtained from all participants and recorded by trained telephone interviewers prior to commencing the telephone surveys. This procedure was used as it allowed participants to maintain their privacy regarding their home residency. Club representatives were pre-notified by email (with information statements attached) that they would receive a phone call inviting them to take part in a telephone survey. Information statements were delivered to parents via the club representative, and parents’ phone numbers were only passed onto the research team if they gave verbal permission to the club representative. All participants were made aware through the information statements that taking part in the research was voluntary, and that they could decline to participate at the time of the phone call.
: Not applicable.
: The Alcohol and Drug Foundation (SM, SS) delivers programs related to the research being reported. Apart from this declaration, all authors declare that they have no additional conflicting interests. LW, MK, and SG had full access to all of the data in this study and take complete responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
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