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Article History

Received: 24 December 2023

Accepted: 15 February 2024

First Online: 28 February 2024

Declarations

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: This study did not require any type of approval from an ethics committee, in accordance with Italian national law, as stated by the Decree of the Minister of Health dated February 1, 2022, and by the Regulations of the “National Ethics Committee for trials of public research institutions (EPRs) and other public institutions of national character,” at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS). Such laws state that ethic committee approval is required in the following circumstances: evaluation of clinical trials under EU Regulation 536/2014 carried out by ISS, EPRs and other public bodies of national character; evaluation of protocols of other studies (including clinical, observational, diagnostic, public health, with medical devices, with the use of human biological material, with environmental ethics implications) carried out by ISS and, possibly, by other EPRs and public bodies of national character; advice and expression of opinions on ethical aspects of activities and interventions of ISS, in relation to its functions and duties as defined by the Statute of ISS, the Rules of Organization and Operation of ISS, and in compliance with applicable regulations. Instead, our study solicited anonymous opinions from physicians related to subjective parameters without any clinical interventions on any patient or physician, nor the solicitation of clinical or medical data in any form.Informed Consent was gathered from all participants adhering to the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The lawful basis for data processing is the voluntary and revocable consent of the participants, who all explicitly expressed their consent to file the survey with reference to the clearly provided, applied privacy statement. Any revocation of consent will not affect data processing activities carried out prior to such revocation. Data will be stored for a duration not exceeding 10 years.All methods were applied in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.