Conte, Kathleen
Marks, Leah
Loblay, Victoria
Grøn, Sisse
Green, Amanda
Innes-Hughes, Christine
Milat, Andrew
Persson, Lina
Williams, Mandy
Thackway, Sarah
Mitchell, Jo
Hawe, Penelope
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Health and Medical Research Council (Gnt9100001)
Article History
Received: 15 August 2019
Accepted: 2 April 2020
First Online: 12 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Research ethics approval was granted by the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Human Research Ethics Committee (X16–0156), and by the research governance offices of each local health district. All participants provided written consent and all names have been changed.
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: The NSW Ministry of Health is one of five funding partners of The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre (TAPPC), within which this project is situated. At the time of the study, AM, LP, ST and JM were employees of the NSW Ministry of Health which funds and monitors performance of the Healthy Children Initiative (HCI), on which program this research is focused and the participants were employed. AG, CIH were employees of the Office of Preventive Health which is responsible for supporting the statewide implementation of HCI. MW oversees the health promotion unit at one of the study sites. LP, JM, MW, and ST were part of a team that designed, manages and maintains the PHIMS system described in this paper. KC, VL, SG, LM and PH were University-based researchers funded through TAPPC to conduct this research. To ensure confidentiality of participants, identifying data about the individuals and the local health districts in which they work was only available to the University-based researchers. Only illustrative, de-identified quotes were shared with the research partners in the context of developing papers.