Christoph, Patricia
Aebi, Julia
Sutter, Lena
Schmitt, Kai-Uwe https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3439-9323
Surbek, Daniel https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7705-1584
Oelhafen, Stephan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4238-6728
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bern University of Applied Sciences
Article History
Received: 11 November 2022
Accepted: 3 January 2023
First Online: 16 January 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: The study protocol was submitted to the responsible Ethics Committee of the Canton of Bern. The study was approved, and it does not fall under the Swiss Human Research Act (reference number: BASEC-Nr: Req-2019-00567). To guarantee the anonymity of the study participants, information from the clinical database and the survey data was linked via a three-character alpha-numeric code, without the need to use any personal data. The study was performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Informed consent was obtained from all participants, it was provided on the first page of the questionnaire.
: Not applicable.