Rhodes, Ryan E.
Guerrero, Michelle D.
Vanderloo, Leigh M.
Barbeau, Kheana
Birken, Catherine S.
Chaput, Jean-Philippe
Faulkner, Guy
Janssen, Ian
Madigan, Sheri
Mâsse, Louise C.
McHugh, Tara-Leigh
Perdew, Megan
Stone, Kelly
Shelley, Jacob
Spinks, Nora
Tamminen, Katherine A.
Tomasone, Jennifer R.
Ward, Helen
Welsh, Frank
Tremblay, Mark S.
Funding for this research was provided by:
ParticipACTION (n/a)
Article History
Received: 28 February 2020
Accepted: 18 May 2020
First Online: 16 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The data gathered through the Stakeholder Survey involved “human participants”, but only through the feedback survey. Gathering information of this nature does not meet the Canadian Tri-council Policy Statement 2 definition of research (ExternalRef removed). The Stakeholder Survey was used to evaluate and gain feedback on the <i>Consensus Statement</i>, which falls under quality assurance/improvement and is exempt from Research Ethics Board review and approval according to Canadian ethics approval guidelines. Stakeholder Survey participants provided passive consent by completing the survey. The survey instructions stated “By completing the survey you provide your consent for us to use your feedback, in aggregated format with other respondents, for reporting purposes. Your responses will be confidential, securely stored and protected, and your anonymity ensured.” The complete Stakeholder Survey is available upon request to the corresponding author.
: All Expert Panel Members are coauthors of this manuscript. Each of them has reviewed the manuscript in its entirety several times and by being coauthors provide consent for their identification as coauthors.
: MST is the Chief Scientific Officer for the ParticipACTION Report Card and the Scientific Chair for the Consensus Statement. He receives no personal compensation for these roles but the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute receives funding from ParticipACTION for the Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group to lead the development of the Report Card and Consensus Statement. LCM received salary support from the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. LMV is employed by ParticipACTION (serving as the organization’s Knowledge Translation Manager) holds a CIHR Fellowship Award. All other authors (RER, MDG, KB, CSB, JPC, GF, IJ, SM, TLM, MP, KS, JS, NS, KAT, JRT, HW, FW) declare they have no competing interests.