Riazi, Negin A.
Battista, Katelyn
Duncan, Markus J.
Wade, Terrance J.
Pickett, William
Ferro, Mark A.
Leatherdale, Scott T.
Patte, Karen A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (OOP-110788, PJT-149092)
Institute of Population and Public Health (MOP-114875, PJT-180262)
Health Canada (1617-HQ-000012)
Sickkids Research Institute (NI21-1193)
Article History
Received: 8 June 2022
Accepted: 9 February 2023
First Online: 13 February 2023
Declarations
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: All procedures received ethics approval from the University of Waterloo (ORE#30118), Brock University (REB#18–099), CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale–Université Laval (#MP-13-2017-1264), and participating school boards, including the use of active-information passive-consent parental permission protocols. All students attending participating schools were invited to participate using active-information passive-consent parental permission protocols. Parents/guardians of all participating students provided informed passive consent, as per active information passive consent parental permission protocols. These protocols are widely used and accepted, and approved by our ethics boards at multiple universities and the school boards themselves. Under these protocols, schools informed parents of the study, and provided study staff contact information to parents. If they had any questions/concerns and/or did not wish to have their child participate, these students were put on a list of not being eligible and were not provided a questionnaire. After at least two weeks had passed, if parents had not contacted study staff to withdraw their child, passive consent was assumed. All students not withdrawn by their parents were considered eligible to participate. All participating students provided active assent. All students could decline to participate and withdraw at any time. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.
: N/A.
: None to declare.