Mejia, Gloria C. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2189-3525
Elani, Hawazin W.
Harper, Sam
Murray Thomson, W.
Ju, Xiangqun
Kawachi, Ichiro
Kaufman, Jay S.
Jamieson, Lisa M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canada Research Chairs
Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé
National Health and Medical Research Council (#299060, #349514, and #349537)
Article History
Received: 19 March 2018
Accepted: 4 October 2018
First Online: 26 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study is informed by a secondary analysis of national survey data; the authors obtained de-identified data from data custodians and had no contact with survey participants. Ethical approval for the original studies/surveys was obtained from the New Zealand Health and Disability Multi-region Ethics Committee (Approval number MEC/07/11/149), the University of Adelaide, NCHS Research Ethics Review Board (Protocol number 98–12) and Health Canada Research Ethics Board. Approval for the study presented in this paper was obtained from the institutional review board (IRB) of McGill University Faculty of Medicine (IRB study number A03-E25-13B; IRB Assurance Number FWA 00004545) and Harvard School of Public Health (protocol number IRB13–1201), which includes all countries included in the analysis.
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