Schwegler, Urban http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2844-0812
Fekete, Christine http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3753-3017
Finger, Monika http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6645-373X
Karcz, Katarzyna
Staubli, Stefan
Brinkhof, Martin W. G. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9319-665X
Article History
Received: 28 February 2020
Revised: 20 November 2020
Accepted: 20 November 2020
First Online: 14 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Ethical approval for the SwiSCI Survey 2012 was granted by the principal ethics committee on research involving humans of the Canton of Lucerne (KEK Luzern, internal application 11042, approved 28.06.2011) and subsequently endorsed by the additional involved cantonal ethics committees of the Cantons Basel-Stadt (EK Basel, internal application 306/11, approved 06.09.2011) and Valais (CCVEM Sion, internal application CCVEM042/11, approved 06.12.2011). Ethical approval for the SwiSCI Survey 2017 was granted by the leading ethical institution Ethikkommision Nordwest-und Zentralschweiz (EKNZ, Project-ID: 11042 PB_2016-02608, approved Dec 2016). We certify that all applicable institutional and governmental regulations concerning the ethical use of human volunteers were followed during the course of this research.