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Received: 21 March 2025

Accepted: 8 September 2025

First Online: 28 October 2025

Declarations

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: The survey was voluntary, anonymous and did not contain personally identifiable data. All participants provided informed consent to use their data in research and publication. To ensure privacy, the study was reported to the Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (SIKT), which approved its application for data processing and storage before the study commenced (Ref. No. 759254). This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki.The dataset can be made available on reasonable request to the main authors. We declare no competing interests. Funding for this project was provided by the Norwegian Centre for Rural Medicine. All authors contributed to the design, analysis and writing of the scientific paper. The first authors conducted the data collection. We would like to thank Paul Farmer for perspective language editing and the Norwegian Centre for Rural Medicine for enabling this study.

: The authors declare no competing interests.