BMC Psychiatry (2023) 23:429
10.1186/s12888-023-04899-2.
The Editors have retracted this article after concerns were raised. After an investigation, the publisher found that the data for this study was also presented in the thesis [1] by the corresponding author. Further investigation by the Publisher found that the study in the thesis included a total of 578 participants from 4 schools (Fig. 2) and the study in this article included a total of 584 participants from 6 schools (Fig. 2), suggesting some of the participants were different in both studies. However, the Publisher noted that data in Tables 1 and 3 of the thesis [1] appear identical to data presented in Tables 1 and 4 of this article, despite having data from some different participants. The authors were not able to explain these differences satisfactorily.
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References
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