Carneiro, João https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8490-1319
Santos, Paulo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2362-5527
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (UIDB/4255/2020)
Article History
Received: 28 October 2024
Accepted: 2 January 2026
First Online: 20 January 2026
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Local Health Unit of Entre-Douro-e-Vouga (Process number 26/2024, of June 04, 2024) and conducted in accordance with the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki and the Convention of Oviedo. The data were collected from an irreversibly anonymised database. The ethics committee waived the requirement for participants’ individual informed consent, as per Portuguese law (Law n.º 21/2014, of April 16, with the alterations introduced by Law n.º 49/2018, of August 14, and Law n.º 73/2015, of July 27).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.