Bojanić, Ivana http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2609-7536
Bjerkeset, Ottar
Williams, Lana J.
Berk, Michael
Sund, Erik R.
Sletvold, Hege
Article History
Accepted: 22 June 2022
First Online: 18 July 2022
Declarations
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: This work was supported by the Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences at Nord University, Nord. The funding body had no role in the design of the study, analysis and interpretation of the data, or writing of the manuscript.
: Ivana Bojanić, Ottar Bjerkeset, Lana J. Williams, Michael Berk, Erik R. Sund, and Hege Sletvold have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.
: This study was approved by the Regional Committees for Medical Research and Health Research Ethics in Norway (reference 2019/30292/REK Nord) and the Norwegian Centre for Research Data (reference 30292/NSD). All study methods were carried out following the institutional guidelines and according to the ethical standards in human research.
: All HUNT participants were informed about the study and gave their informed consent to participate and this consent included the use of the data material in the future.
: Not applicable.
: The data used in this study are available from the HUNT databank, but restrictions apply to the availability of these data. The data were used under license for the current study and thus are not publicly available. However, data are available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission from HUNT, The Regional Ethical Committee, and Norwegian Data Protection Authority. The dataset used in this study are stored in the HUNT databank using a personal identification number given to all Norwegians at birth or immigration as a key identification. The HUNT Research Centre has permission from the Norwegian Data Inspectorate to store and handle these data. The HUNT data are available for scientists who wish to use them for research and non-commercial purposes without breaching participant confidentiality. The researcher will always receive an anonymous or “de-identified” dataset after receiving approval of a research protocol by the Regional Ethical Committee and the HUNT Research Centre. To protect participants’ privacy, the HUNT Research Centre aims to limit data storage outside the HUNT databank and cannot deposit data in open repositories. The HUNT databank has precise information on all data exported to different projects and can reproduce these on request. There are no restrictions regarding data export to give approval of applications to HUNT Research. For more information about HUNT data, see ExternalRef removed<b>.</b>
: Not applicable.
: All authors contributed substantially to the conceptualization, design of the study, and writing of the manuscript. IB performed the statistical analysis in collaboration with ERS. All authors contributed to the interpretation of the results of the analysis. IB wrote the article’s first draft, and HS, OB, LJW, MB, and ERS critically revised the content. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.