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Accepted: 2 February 2025

First Online: 1 March 2025

Declarations

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: Julie Ratcliffe is an editorial board member of Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. She was not involved in the selection of peer reviewers for the manuscript nor any of the subsequent editorial decisions. The authors declare that they have no other conflicts of interest.

: Open Access funding enabled and organized by CAUL and its Member Institutions. This study was supported by a Flinders University Caring Futures Institute COVID-19 Agility Grant. The funder had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, or interpretation of the data; preparation, review or approval of the manuscript; or decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

: Study concept and design: J.R., R.M., G.D., G.C. and M.C. Acquisition of data: J.R. and R.M. Analysis and interpretation: M.C. and G.C. Manuscript drafting: J.R. and R.M. Critical revision of the manuscript: M.C., G.C., J.R., R.M. and GD.

: All participants provided informed consent before completing the survey.

: This study was approved by the Flinders University Human Research Ethics Committee (approval no. 2081).

: The datasets generated and analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request (for example, from requesters with appropriate expertise from academic institutions with relevant governance arrangements to conduct ethical research) and with institutional ethical approval.

: Not applicable.

: Codes used in the analysis will be made available upon reasonable request from the authors.