The study protocol and instruments received ethical approval from the University of Toronto Human Subjects Review Committee and from the individual study sites.
Statutory instruments receive less parliamentary time and scrutiny than full bills.
Researchers can then remotely monitor and control instruments, receive alerts, and automatically log data.
The final survey instrument received ethics approval through the University of Sydney Ethics Committee.
Prior to the pilot and this current study, the investigators added new items to the existing instruments based on recommendations that were received from 25 6th- through 8th- grade girls participating in focus groups conducted by the first author.
An approval to use the instrument in the current project is received from The EuroQol group.
A number of changes were made to the PRO Consortium's instrument translation process based on the feedback received from translation companies and member firms.
Revisions were made to the format and content of the instrument (a daily diary) based on feedback received from cognitive testing with 15 adolescents.
Initially, the research instrument for students was designed based on the feedback received from the five partner institutions participating in the IPPHEAE project.
The survey instrument was tested and subjected to three cycles of modifications based on iterative feedback received from ten medical professionals in clinical practice.
