Gerding, Johannes http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3337-1345
Peters, Claudia
Wegscheider, Wolfgang
Stranzinger, Johanna
Lessmann, Frederik
Pitzke, Katrin
Harth, Volker
Eickmann, Udo
Nienhaus, Albert
Funding for this research was provided by:
German Social Accident Insurance, Institution for the health and welfare services (BGW), Hamburg, Germany (No specific grant)
Article History
Received: 9 September 2020
Accepted: 3 January 2021
First Online: 24 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors (Johannes Gerding, Claudia Peters, Wolfgang Wegscheider, Frederik Lessmann, Katrin Pitzke, Volker Harth, Udo Eickmann and Albert Nienhaus) declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: 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. The study design was reviewed and approved by the Hamburg Ethics Commission (File Reference: PV5650).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Participants were informed about scope and aim of this study and gave written consent about their participation. With regard to mentally handicapped participants under legal supervision consent was given by both the participants and their respective legal representatives. Biomonitoring samples and questionnaires were number encoded to ensure the anonymity of participants. All authors mentioned above declare their consent for publication.