Kouhia, Marianne https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9340-1027
Linden, Kari
Metso, Saara
Pimiä, Elina
Koski, Sari
Aarnio, Emma
Zacheus, Tuomas
Hämeen-Anttila, Katri
Funding for this research was provided by:
Diabetesliitto
Itä-Suomen Yliopisto
University of Eastern Finland
Article History
Accepted: 7 April 2026
First Online: 22 April 2026
Declarations
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: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.
: The study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles of research in the human sciences in Finland and did not require ethical approval [ ]. Participants were asked for informed consent before answering the survey. Privacy legislation [ , ] was followed when handling the data.
: Not applicable.
: The data generated or analyzed in the current study are not publicly available due to the sensitivity of the data; however, anonymized data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request for academic purposes.
: MK: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing—original draft; KL: Supervision, Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing—review & editing; SM: Supervision, Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing- review & editing; EP: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing—review & editing; SK: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing—review & editing; EA: Formal analysis, Writing—review & editing; TZ: Methodology, Writing—review & editing; KH-A: Supervision, Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing—review & editing