Jilani, Hannah https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5799-8383
Intemann, Timm
Eiben, Gabriele
Lauria, Fabio
Lissner, Lauren
Michels, Nathalie
Molnár, Dénes
Moreno, Luis A.
Pala, Valeria
Tornaritis, Michael
Veidebaum, Toomas
Ahrens, Wolfgang
Hebestreit, Antje
,
Funding for this research was provided by:
Seventh Framework Programme
Leibniz-Institut für Präventionsforschung und Epidemiologie – BIPS GmbH
Article History
Received: 2 November 2023
Accepted: 4 November 2024
First Online: 11 December 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Each study centre obtained ethical approval from the local institutional review board; Belgium: Ethics Committee of the Gent University Hospital, 15/10/2007, ref: No. EC UZG 2007/243 and 19/02/2013, No. B670201316342, Cyprus: Cyprus National Bioethics Committee, 12/07/2007, ref: No. EEBK/EM/2007/16 and 21/Feb/2013, No. EEBK/ETI/2012/33, Estonia: Tallinn Medical Research Ethics Committee (TMREC), 14/06/2007, ref: No. 1093 and 17/January 2013, No. 128, Germany: Ethic Commission of the University of Bremen, 16/01/2007 and 11/12/2012, Hungary: Medical Research Council, 21/Jun/2007, ref: 22-156/2007-1018EKU and 18/12/2012, 4536/2013/EKU, Italy: Ethics Committee of the Local Health Authority (ASL) in Avellino, 19/06/2007, ref: No. 2/CE and 18/Sep/2012, No. 12/12, Spain: Ethics Committee for Clinical Research of Aragon (CEICA), 20/06/2007, ref:No. PI07/13 and 13/Feb/2013, No. PI13/0012, Sweden: Regional Ethics Research Board in Gothenburg, 30/07/2007, ref: No. 264-07 and 10/Jan/2013, No. 927-12. The ISRCTN reference is: ISRCTN62310987. Besides the oral information given, all participants above 12 years gave a written consent and parents gave a written consent on behalf of their children below 12 years in addition to the oral consent of their children.