Ruiter, Emilie L. M.
Fransen, Gerdine A. J.
Kleinjan, Marloes
van der Velden, Koos
Molleman, Gerard R. M.
Engels, Rutger C. M. E.
Article History
Received: 25 June 2021
Accepted: 31 January 2022
First Online: 18 February 2022
Declarations
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: The Child Monitor questionnaire is part of the "Local and National Health Monitor". The Local and National Health Monitor is a partnership between national and regional public health organizations on behalf of the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. The organizations have made agreements with each other on how to use the collected data to perform local and national surveillance tasks [CitationRef removed]. The design and method (data collection) of the Child Monitor complies with the legal provisions of the Personal Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation in the Netherlands and the protocol was approved by the institutional review board of the Municipal Health Services, Department of the Gelderland-South region in the Netherlands. It also complies with the protocols of the Municipal Health Service that are part of the Dutch Harmonization of Quality Assessment in the Healthcare Sector (HKZ) system that is periodically tested externally. We received approval from the Director of the medical office of the Municipal Health Services Department of the Gelderland-South region in the Netherlands to use the Child Monitor database for our analyses and to report the results. This director is formally responsible for conducting of the Child Monitor. Consent to participate was not applicable.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.