Bouckaert, Nicolas http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2513-8957
Cleemput, Irina http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4479-8950
Devriese, Stephan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6555-8916
Gerkens, Sophie http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6211-3471
Funding for this research was provided by:
EuroQol Research Foundation (20170490, 20170491)
Article History
Accepted: 5 July 2022
First Online: 4 August 2022
Declarations
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: This research was co-funded by the Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) and the EuroQol Research Foundation (EQ Project 20170490 and 20170491). The KCE is a federal institution that is financed by the National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (NIHDI, RIZIV – INAMI), the Federal Public Service of health, food chain safety and environment, and the Federal Public Service of social security. The development of health services research studies is part of the legal mission of the KCE. Although the development of the studies is paid by the KCE budget, the sole mission of the KCE is providing scientifically valid information.
: Nicolas Bouckaert, Irina Cleemput, Stephan Devriese and Sophie Gerkens declare that they have no conflicts of interest directly relevant to the content of this article.
: The study received approval from the ethics committee of the university hospital of Ghent (B670201835610) and was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Participants were informed about their freedom of refusal. Anonymity and confidentiality were maintained throughout the research process.
: The study participants consented to the collection, storage and analysis of their data and the publication of anonymous final results.
: Anonymous datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. Requests for personal data at the individual level will be judged case by case to assure compliance with informed consent clauses on confidentiality of personal data as approved by the ethics committee.
: Code for data cleaning and analysis are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: All authors contributed to the study conception and design. SD was responsible for the sampling design. SG and IC supervised the data collection and quality control process. NB was responsible for the data analysis. The first draft of the manuscript was written by NB and SG. All authors played a role in the review of the analysis, the interpretation of the results and the review and editing of the final version of the manuscript.