Article History
First Online: 4 July 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study was an investigator-initiated trial without any influence by church authorities. All authors are faculty members of universities; three of the authors are Catholic priests (EF, KB, CJ) working at universities as researchers. The authors do not have any financial or other competing interests to disclose.
: All procedures 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. All individuals who participated in this anonymously conducted cross-sectional study were informed about the purpose of the study, assured of confidentiality and their right to withdraw their participation at any time, and asked to provide informed consent by signing a form included with but separate from the provided questionnaires. None of the participants received any form of incentive.