Teni, Fitsum Sebsibe http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6182-499X
Gerdtham, Ulf-G. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0647-7817
Leidl, Reiner http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7115-7510
Henriksson, Martin http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1699-3185
Åström, Mimmi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6711-5262
Sun, Sun http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5948-3025
Burström, Kristina http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9996-4317
Funding for this research was provided by:
Karolinska Institute
Article History
Accepted: 22 August 2021
First Online: 10 October 2021
Declarations
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: Fitsum Sebsibe Teni, Ulf-G Gerdtham and Martin Henriksson have no conflicts of interest to declare that are relevant to the content of this article. Reiner Leidl, Mimmi Åström, Sun Sun and Kristina Burström are members of the EuroQol Group. The views expressed by the authors in the publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the EuroQol Group.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee (Regional Ethical Review Board in Uppsala (Dnr: 2015/417) and Swedish Ethical Review Authority (Dnr: 2019–00763)) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: The pseudonymised data are based on information from individuals who agreed to participate after having been informed about the study. The individuals in the sample were informed that responded questionnaire would be linked to the Swedish official registries through the personal identification numbers, to obtain register information on sociodemographic level. The respondents thus accepted the linking of registry data by informed consent. All handling of personal identification numbers was carried out by Statistics Sweden, the statistical administrative authority in Sweden. The survey has been approved by the Regional Ethical Review Board in Uppsala (Dnr: 2015/417). The present study has been approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority (Dnr: 2019–00763).
: Not applicable.