Asaoka, Hiroki
Watanabe, Kazuhiro
Miyamoto, Yuki
Restrepo-Henao, Alexandra
van der Ven, Els
Moro, Maria Francesca
Alnasser, Lubna A.
Ayinde, Olatunde
Balalian, Arin A.
Basagoitia, Armando
Durand-Arias, Sol
Eskin, Mehmet
Fernández-Jiménez, Eduardo
Ines, Freytes Frey Marcela
Giménez, Luis
Hoek, Hans W.
Jaldo, Rodrigo Ezequiel
Lindert, Jutta
Maldonado, Humberto
Martínez-Alés, Gonzalo
Mediavilla, Roberto
McCormack, Clare
Narvaez, Javier
Ouali, Uta
Barrera-Perez, Aida
Calgua-Guerra, Erwin
Ramírez, Jorge
Rodríguez, Ana María
Seblova, Dominika
da Silva, Andrea Tenorio Correia
Valeri, Linda
Gureje, Oye
Ballester, Dinarte
Carta, Mauro Giovanni
Isahakyan, Anna
Jamoussi, Amira
Seblova, Jana
Solis-Soto, Maria Teresa
Alvarado, Ruben
Susser, Ezra
Mascayano, Franco
Nishi, Daisuke
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Article History
Received: 26 April 2024
Accepted: 23 August 2024
First Online: 12 September 2024
Declarations
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: This study was approved by accredited Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) in each participating country, including the IRB of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile; Columbia University Medical Center IRB; Hospital La Paz Ethics Committee; Research Ethics Committee of the Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tokyo (No. 2019164NI-(1)(2)(3)(4)) and the research ethics committee of the National Hospital Organization Disaster Medical Center (No. 2019–19) in Japan; National Committee of Ethics in Research (CONEP/CNS/MS); Ethics Committee of the Azienda Mista Ospedaliero-Universitaria of Cagliari; University of Ibadan/University College Hospital Ethics Review Committee; Instituto Jalisciense de Salud Mental (SALME); Comité de Ética de Investigación en Seres Humanos, de la Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile; IRB University of Applied Sciences Emden / Leer; Comité de Bioética, de la Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Mayor de San Simón; Ponce Health Sciences University; Ethics Committee of the Czech Ministry of Health, Ethics Committee at the Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague; Institutional Ethics Committee at the Institute of Molecular Biology of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia; King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC) IRB committee; Comité de Bioética en Investigación en Salud, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala; Bioethics Committee of the National School of Public Health, University of Antioquia and Pan-American Health Organization Ethics Review Committee. In the Netherlands, ethical approval was waived by the Medical Ethical boards of the Maastricht University Medical Center and the Amsterdam Medical Center, because the participants were not regarded as patients or identifiable persons sharing sensitive information following the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act (WMO). All participants provided informed consent to participate.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.