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Article History

Received: 20 July 2020

Accepted: 7 March 2021

First Online: 19 April 2021

Declarations

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: Approval for the study was obtained from the Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l’Est-de-l’Île-de-Montréal-Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (CIUSSS-EMTL-HMR) Research Ethics Committee (REC) on March 8th, 2017 (ref: MP-12–2017-841, CIUSSS-EMTL-203). Since this REC considered the study at low-risk for participants, participants were advised that survey completion was voluntary, and they could withdraw from the study at any time. Completing and submitting the study questionnaire was considered as consent to participate by the CIUSSS-EMTL-HMR REC. Moreover, study information was mailed to participants, including the link to the online questionnaire. In instances where patients were minor children (14-18 years of age), the parents/guardians were contacted to complete the questionnaire. Hence, no recruitment of minor children occurred. However, it was possible to retain minor children’s responses (<i>n</i>=2) in the dataset because minor children aged 14 years or older can consent and participate in low-risk studies in Québec, where the study was conducted ().

: Not applicable.

: All authors declare that they have no competing interests.