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Received: 9 December 2024

Accepted: 19 August 2025

First Online: 29 August 2025

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Ethics Commission, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest (study no. 874; approval date: November 22, 2022).

: Electronic written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to their involvement in the study. As an online survey served as a data collection tool, only participants who clicked the button ”Yes” to the question ”Do you agree that the project team to collect, process, and manage responses in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation?” after reading a detailed information sheet that outlined the nature, purpose, procedures, potential risks, and anticipated benefits of the study were included in the research. Informed consent was provided during the data collection process, between November 2022 and January 2023. All collected data have been anonymized and are stored securely. Only aggregated results are presented in the findings to ensure confidentiality and protect participant identities.