Golz, Christoph
Kilcher, G.
Gerlach, M.
Hägerbäumer, M.
Peter, K. A.
Blozik, E.
Funding for this research was provided by:
SWICA Health Organization
Bern University of Applied Sciences
Article History
Accepted: 27 January 2024
First Online: 11 March 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The local Swiss ethical board in Bern confirmed that the study does not warrant a full ethical application and does not fall under the Swiss Federal Act on Research Involving Human Beings (Req-2021-00668).
: The study was conducted on a voluntary basis for all organizations, and all participants were free to stop filling in the questionnaire at any time. Participants received written information before the start of the study about the contents, aim, and voluntary nature of their participation and gave their informed consent by completing the first survey page. All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5). Informed consent was obtained from all patients to be included in the study.