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Article History

Received: 21 June 2025

Accepted: 29 September 2025

First Online: 27 October 2025

Declarations

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: The Bogomolets National Medical University has a policy that the cross-sectional studies on healthy participants are exempt from the need to obtain approval of the ethics committee, i.e., such studies are eligible for a waiver. The Ethics Committee of the Bogomolets National Medical University waived the need for an ethics appraisal of the study protocol, as it was a cross-sectional study on healthy volunteers (official document to confirm the waiver was issued with a decision number 120/3 from December 27, 2024).The participants voluntarily participated in the survey upon being sent an invitation to participate, along with detailed information about the study, through Google Classroom. All participants provided written informed consent in the Google Form before starting to participate in the survey. Participants were allowed to withdraw from or stop the survey at any point before submitting it. The Google Form contained no previous information that could affect the answers. The study was carried out in compliance with the Helsinki declaration, and in line with all the applicable laws and regulations. To prevent unauthorized access, the first author (LL) stored the data on a password-protected server.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.