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1 Field Work Data Documentation HBSC 2010 COUNTRIES DATA COLLECTION PERIOD ARMENIA AUSTRIA BELGIUM WALLONE BELGIUM WLAAMSE CANADA CROATIA CZECH REPUBLIC DENMARK COLLECTION MODE and LANGUAGE ADMINI- STRATOR SCHOOL- PARENTAL- STUDENT OTHER ETHICAL APPROVAL NATIONAL LEGAL ISSUES Armenian Informed Passive Passive Yes, National - Ministry of Yes, MoE German Teachers Informed Passive Passive Yes, Board of Federal Ministry for including experts for school psychology, data protection and administration French Teachers, Informed No consent Passive Yes, Boards of School networks of the French speaking Community (private, state, province and local authorities) Dutch Teachers Informed Passive Passive Yes, Ghent University Hospital English and French Teachers, Croatian Teachers, Informed Informed at parent level both informed and passive used on school board or headmaster's decision Informed for parents and for school master active consent was required. Students could decline anyhow to fill in the questionnaire Yes, National level, health Canada and University level REB Yes, Ethical approval from the CNIPH and written approval from the MoSES Yes, Law on primary and secondary schools Czech No consent Passive Passive Yes, ministry of health Danish Teachers Informed Passive Informed Yes, Yes, we obtained approval and support from the Ministry of

2 ENGLAND ESTONIA FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY GREECE GREENLAND HUNGARY ICELAND IRELAND personal interview and English Teachers Other Informed Passive Passive Yes, University research Estonian,, Informed Informed Informed Yes, National body (Tallinn Medical Ethics Committee) Finnish Teachers Informed Passive Passive Yes, National body French German school, Teachers, in which the minister recommended the schools to participate in the survey Yes, Estonian Ministry of and was informed Passive Passive Passive National body Yes, Control of electronical data sets with personal information Informed Informed Informed Yes, Yes, in all 16 states of Germany (all ministries and all data protection administrations) Greek Greenlandic Teachers, and Danish Hungarian Icelandic Teachers, English Teachers Informed Passive Passive Parental consent was either active or passive depending on the choice of Informed Passive Passive Yes, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION Informed Informed Passive Yes, National body Informed Passive Passive Yes, national body Informed Passive Informed Yes, Personuvernd (Personal Protection Agency) Yes, University Ethics Committee Yes, we got all ethical approvals for 15 out of 16 states. One ministry (Ministry of Culture in Baden-Württemberg) did not allow the data collection; even though we had very strong support from the Ministry of Social Affairs for Baden- Württemberg. We are still

3 ISRAEL ITALY LATVIA LITHUANIA LUXEMBOURG MACEDONIA MALTA NETHERLANDS NORWAY POLAND Computer and Hebrew, Arabic Italian; German only for some school in stratum 14 (Bolzano Province) Latvian, the school principal Other Informed No consent Passive Yes, National, regional, sectorial, university Other Informed Passive Informed Yes, National level: Ethical Committee of the 'Instituto Superiore di Sanità', technical body of the Ministry of Health,, Other Informed Passive Informed Lithuanian Teachers Informed Passive Passive Informed, Ministry of, 25 Local Departments of French and German Macedonian and Albanian Yes, Regional office of the national body Yes, For use of suicide items. we were requested to notify school principals of positive answers so they can implement mental health activities to the specific grade levels Teachers No consent Passive Passive Yes, National Ethic Committee Yes, National Commission of Data Protection school, Passive Passive Passive Yes, Ministry of education and local community approval MALTESE & ENGLISH Teachers Informed Informed Informed Informed Yes, NATIONAL Yes, SEXUAL HEALTH QUESTIONS Dutch Informed Passive Passive Norwegian Teachers Informed Passive Passive Yes, National body and University Ground Comity POLISH, Informed Passive Informed Passive, local public health centres coordinating Yes, local at Institute of Mother and Child

4 PORTUGAL ROMANIA RUSSIA SCOTLAND SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SPAIN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND TURKEY Computer survey at regional level Portuguese Teachers Informed Informed Informed Yes, National body Yes, Ministry of Romanian Informed Informed Ministry of Yes, University Ground Committee and County School, Inspectorate Informed Informed Yes, Institute of Physical Culture Scientific Council English Teachers Informed Passive Passive Yes, University: Moray House School of Ethical Committee Slovak, Hungarian (only in schools using Hungarian language officially) Informed Passive Informed Yes, University ground Slovene school Informed Informed Passive Yes, national body Spanish Teachers Informed Passive Informed Yes, university ground Swedish Teachers Informed Passive Informed German, French and Italian Turkish Teachers Informed Passive Informed Informed, [Comment on parental level: mostly passively, with exception of one canton (actively).] Other level: Cantonal Ministries of school Yes, Ethics Commission of the University of Lausanne Passive No consent Passive Yes, Ministry of National

5 UKRAINE USA WALES and Ukrainian/Ru ssian English English and Welsh (the vast majority being completed in English) Other Informed Passive Informed Yes, Support letter of the Ministry of and Science of Ukraine was signed by the Deputy State Secretary and send by Ministry of and Science of Ukraine directly to the regional Departments of and Science Informed Informed Informed Depending on requirements of school district, sometimes passive consent Yes, National Informed Passive Passive Yes, Cardiff University School of Social Sciences

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