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Article History

Received: 25 March 2021

Accepted: 9 August 2021

First Online: 23 September 2021

Declarations

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: This study forms part of a bigger research project known as, SMAASH, which is exempt from requiring ethics approval according to Swiss legislation for research involving human subjects. Nonetheless, an ethics approval application for the SMAASH project was made to the cantonal ethics committee in Northwest and Central Switzerland (application number: EKNZ req-2017-00810), which confirmed the exemption of the project from requiring an ethics approval. Participants provided their verbal consent after having being informed on the objectives of the latter project, the modalities regarding the processing of their information, and their questions answered by the interviewers. Indeed, according to institutional requirements and national legislation, written informed consent was not required for participation. In this regard, all necessary regulations and guidelines for the conduct of the SMAASH project were followed.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.