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Article History

Received: 14 May 2021

Accepted: 24 September 2021

First Online: 5 October 2021

Declarations

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: As participation in the study was both voluntary and anonymous, approval by the official ethic committee was not necessary. Nevertheless approval was obtained from the committee of the public institutions workers’ council. The procedures used in the study adhere to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki and the legal requirements of the country (Austria, Europe).

: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

: Not applicable because all data were collected and processed anonymously. At the opening event of the study participants took their individual device out of a box full of fitness trackers. The serial number of the tracker was written in the case of the device. Participants were asked to report their number in the online survey to match survey data with data from the tracker. Therefore only the participant knew his or her serial number. No one else (including the research team and other participants) knew which serial number belonged to the participant.

: The authors declare that there are no competing interests or conflicts of interest.