Empowering Pacific Patients on the Weight Loss Surgery Pathway: A Co-designed Evaluation Study.

"Declarations Ethics Approval and Consent to ParticipateInformed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Ethics was approved by the Health Research Council of New Zealand’s Ethics Committee for the purposes of Sect. 25(1)(c) of the Health Research Council Act 1990. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Ethical approval was granted by the Northern A Health and Disability Ethics Committee (New Zealand). This decision was made through the HDEC-Full Review pathway, Ethics ref. 20/NTA/30, 30 June 2020. Conflict of InterestThe authors declare no competing interests. Conflict of Interest The authors declare no competing interests."

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