Lapomarda, Gaia
Frajo-Apor, Beatrice
Autengruber, Gerald
Hofer, Alex
Morawetz, Carmen
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Innsbruck and Medical University of Innsbruck
Article History
Received: 25 August 2025
Accepted: 16 July 2026
First Online: 21 July 2026
Declarations
Ethics Approval: This study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the University Ethics Committee (90/2022).
Consent to Participate: All participants provided written informed consent prior to participating.
Consent for Publication: Informed consent for publication was provided by the participants.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
AI Statement: During the preparation of this manuscript, the authors used Grammarly and Claude (Anthropic) for assistance with language editing and preparation of the path diagram code. All statistical analyses and interpretations were made by the authors. The authors reviewed and take full responsibility for all content in the manuscript.