Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FDN-154323)
Article History
Received: 2 July 2024
Accepted: 4 February 2025
First Online: 11 February 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans. The study was approved by the Nova Scotia Health Research Ethics Board (REB#: 1021104).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. This included consent to link their survey data to administrative health databases.
: The authors declare no competing interests.