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Received: 23 May 2022

Accepted: 23 August 2022

First Online: 7 October 2022

Declarations

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: The study was approved by The Scientific Ethics Committees for the Region of Southern Denmark (no. 20192000–40) on February 25^th, 2019, and by the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) under the joint data notification scheme on March 10^th, 2017, and was transferred to SDU’s record, cf. article 30 of the General Data Protection Rules (GDPR) on May 25^th, 2018. As the data was collected by Esbjerg Municipality for administrative purposes, the research project builds on proxy consent. Every employee who is part of an employment relationship in a Danish public organization permits the organization to collect and process data about him/her by signing the employment contract. Employees are fully informed that after signing the contract, their information may be used for statistical analyses of scientific and public interest. This is authorized in the Danish Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act (Data Protection Act, Act No. 502 of 23/05/2018, Applicable). Consequently, Esbjerg Municipality is the owner of the data and is legally authorized by Danish law to provide proxy consent on behalf of its employees. Furthermore, it is voluntary for all employees in Esbjerg Municipality to participate in the different surveys included in PUMA-WSC. Therefore, in completing the various surveys, the employees are implied to provide their consent to the collection and processing of their data. Firm collaboration agreements are in place between the research team and Esbjerg Municipality which ensure that Esbjerg Municipality will have no access to the integrated data sets processed in PUMA-WSC. Furthermore, it will not be possible to identify any individual employee in the published results from PUMA-WSC, and no results from the project may be used for administrative decisions. The data are stored, processed, and analysed according to highest safety and security standards.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.