Nehumba, Doreen
Paiero, Adrianna
Tafessu, Hiwot
Salters, Kate
Moore, David
Lima, Viviane D. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4943-091X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (PJT-148595 and PJT-156147)
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (Scholar Award)
Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR Innovation Grant – 30-101)
Article History
Received: 13 May 2021
Accepted: 19 May 2022
First Online: 28 June 2022
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Survey participation is voluntary. Data are collected under the authority of the Statistics Act, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, Chapter S-19. The information is kept strictly confidential. The Statistics Act contains very strict confidentiality provisions that protect collected information from unauthorized access.
: Ethics approval was acquired from the Providence Health Care Research Ethics Board, ethics certificate number H18-00949.
: This study was granted approval by two academic peers and a Statistics Canada Subject Matter Expert as per the evaluation process facilitated by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. A Microdata Research Contract between the researchers and Statistics Canada was signed and security clearance was confirmed, thus granting access to the Research Data Centre to conduct these analyses. No findings or beliefs presented in this manuscript are a reflection of Statistics Canada.
: This paper is compliant with the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines for cross-sectional studies.