Moncho, Joaquín
Pereyra-Zamora, Pamela http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8993-3349
Tamayo-Fonseca, Nayara
Giron, Manuel
Gómez-Beneyto, Manuel
Nolasco, Andreu
Article History
Received: 13 October 2017
Accepted: 5 July 2018
First Online: 13 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This research is a transversal observational study based on administrative data.An informed consent was required from every participant in the National Health Survey by the Spanish National Statistics Institute. For people younger than 18 years old, informed consent was obtained from their parents or tutors.According to national regulations, data from National Health Surveys are public in Spain (ExternalRef removed) and the Spanish National Statistics Institute is responsible for and guarantees confidentiality and anonymity, being unnecessary the approval of an ethics committee. The researchers only had access to public data that had been rendered anonymous, and so this research poses no ethical issues.
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