Vermeiren, Elias https://orcid.org/0009-0006-6865-6251
van Loenhout, Joris A. F. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7810-7738
Nasiadka, Léonore
Stouten, Veerle https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0162-2202
Billuart, Matthieu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4805-9242
Van Evercooren, Izaak
Catteau, Lucy https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4695-4275
Hubin, Pierre https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7316-5637
Funding for this research was provided by:
Belgian Federal Authorities (LINK-VACC)
Article History
Received: 23 June 2023
Accepted: 31 October 2023
First Online: 11 November 2023
Declarations
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: The study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki. The protocol of the LINK-VACC project was approved by the medical ethics committee University Hospital Brussels—Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) on 3 February 2021 (reference number 2020/523) and obtained authorization from the Information Security Committee (ISC) Social Security and Health (reference number IVC/KSZG/21/034). As confirmed by section 23 and 24 of the <i>Guidelines 03/2020 on the processing of data concerning health for the purpose of scientific research in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak</i> of the European Data Protection Board (V1.0 of 21 April 2020), this survey falls under Article 6 §1(e) and Article 9 §2(i) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In appliance with these GDPR legal grounds of data processing, no informed consent had to be signed by the patients.
: Not applicable.
: All authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.