Domínguez-Salas, Sara https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5666-1487
Rodríguez-Domínguez, Carmen https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3467-8920
Escobar-Segovia, Kenny https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1278-7640
Arcos-Romero, Ana Isabel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9833-4417
Gómez-Gómez, Irene https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8014-6955
Gómez-Salgado, Juan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9053-7730
Article History
Received: 29 August 2025
Accepted: 31 March 2026
First Online: 6 April 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: As data were collected from Spain, the project was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Huelva, which belong to the Regional Ministry of Health of Andalusia, Spain (PI 036/20). The study was also approved by the following Ethics Committees: Universidad de Aconcagua (Santiago, Chile), University of Cartagena (Colombia), Universidad San Gregorio de Portoviejo (Ecuador), Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico), Universidad Científica del Sur in Peru and by the National Committee on Health Research Ethics (El Salvador). In the case of Argentina, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Paraguay, it is important to note that the project was coordinated by Spain, with the endorsement of the Spanish Ethics Committee for data collection in these countries. Informed consent was obtained from all the people who participated in the study. All methods were carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and the ethical standards of the institutional research committees.