Pereira, Andreia Penso
Afonso, Ana
Laureano, Raul M. S.
de Lima Neto, Fernando Buarque
Funding for this research was provided by:
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P. (UID/GES/00315/2020)
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P. (UIDB/04466/2020)
ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Project HOPE)
ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Project HOPE)
Article History
Received: 18 September 2024
Accepted: 22 November 2024
First Online: 26 November 2024
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All methods of data gathering were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. The authors did not have any direct contact with the subjects participating in the study. The data obtained from INE are publicly available and of a general nature, not allowing the identification of the subjects involved<sup>25</sup>. The data provided by ARSN were collected by the institution, in accordance with the legislation applicable in the Portuguese Public Administration, including informed consent from all subjects and/or their legal guardian(s)<sup>26,27</sup>. Moreover, the data provided by ARSN for this research went through a set of mechanisms that guarantee the protection of privacy (for example encryption and anonymization), and all the procedures were duly endorsed by the ARSN ethics committee, in strict compliance with all issues related to access to Public Administration data, and the data protection regime. The present research does not include the use of experimental protocols.