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Received: 29 July 2024

Accepted: 21 September 2024

First Online: 8 October 2024

Declarations

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: In each country the planned research activities receive the required national ethical approvals. In Lithuania, the Lithuanian bioethics committee was consulted. Confirmation was given that permission of this committee was not mandatory in Lithuania for this study. In Belgium, review and approval is completed by the Commission of medical ethics of the Ghent University hospital (BC-10088). The Committee of Medical Ethics of the University Mental Health, Neurosciences, & Precision Medicine Research Institute gave approval to conduct this study in Greece (1983-23/12/2021). In Cyprus, the Cyprus National Bioethics Committee gave permission (EEBK EΠ 2021.01.171) to perform the study in Cyprus. In Luxembourg, ethics approval was given by the Comité national d’éthique de recherché (202110/03). To participate to the survey and/or the interview, eligible participants are informed about the specific part of the study, the objectives, the data collection procedures, and the confidentiality and data protection rules by the informed consent and they are asked to agree with it.

: Not applicable. We provide the participants with the information that the study will only publish results on an aggregated level and that we will not publish about individual patient data.

: The authors declare no competing interests.