Luca, Maria https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5935-8283
Luca, Antonina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8397-3478
Patti, Francesco https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6923-0846
Perez Algorta, Guillermo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6610-4951
Eccles, Fiona Juliet Rosalind https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1484-2703
Article History
Received: 5 June 2024
Accepted: 16 October 2024
First Online: 24 October 2024
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: none.
: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University Hospital “Policlinico-San Marco” of Catania, Italy (protocol: 96/2021/PO) and the Faculty of Health and Medicine Research Ethics Committee of Lancaster University, UK (protocol: FHMREC20186) and was performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. Participants did not receive any form of compensation for taking part in the study.