Chatzisymeonidis, Stavros https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7533-078X
Giles, Susan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3435-3010
Waring, Sara https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-5705
Almond, Louise https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9228-2057
Funding for this research was provided by:
Duncan Norman Scholarship Trust
Article History
Received: 15 November 2025
Accepted: 23 April 2026
First Online: 13 May 2026
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was obtained from the University of Liverpool Research Ethics Committee (Ethics ID: 14328). Subsequently, the Hellenic Police Headquarters granted access to the Police National Computer “Police On-line” missing person records (Decision ID: 1821/24/1285789), supervised by the lead and deputy lead of the Missing Persons Bureau, operating within the Sub-directorate of Records and Identity Searches of the General Police Directorate of Attica, Athens, Greece.
: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.