Malinka, Christin
Dittrich, Florian
Back, David Alexander
Ansorg, Jörg
von Jan, Ute
Albrecht, Urs-Vito
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH)
Article History
Received: 21 December 2021
Accepted: 17 October 2022
First Online: 23 February 2023
Declarations
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: All experiments were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. The study project was an anonymous online survey. The data were already collected anonymously, and at no time was it possible to identify individual participants. Consequently, no personal data or confidential health information were collected, as these were not relevant for the analysis. The national medical professional law (§15 MBO), the GDPR (Article 6 and Recital 26), and the Declaration of Helsinki (Article 32) only provide for informed consent in the context of non-anonymous data. Regardless, we informed potential study participants about the study and anonymous participation on the first page of the online survey. They were provided with basic information about potential data protection issues. By continuing with the questionnaire, implied consent was assumed. The procedure was coordinated in advance with the local data protection officer of Hannover Medical School (where the data was collected on a local installation of SoSci Survey). Additionally, the Ethics Committee of Hannover Medical School (study number 8746_BO_K_2019) and the Ethics Committee of the Saarland Medical Association (study number 261/19) approved the study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.