Article History
Received: 3 July 2019
Accepted: 30 April 2020
First Online: 16 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: We analysed secondary data provided by the INSuLa survey, developed in 2014 by the INAIL (Italian Workers’ Compensation Authority) in the triennial research plan 2013–2015 and on the basis of a project commissioned by the Italian Ministry of Health. The survey was commissioned and approved by the Ministry of Health’s Scientific Committee and ratified by INAIL’s Scientific Committee, which approved the study and procedures of data collection. All procedures in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its amendments, or comparable ethical standards. Verbal informed consent was obtained from all participants, since the interviews were conducted by telephone. The verbal informed consent is allowed in surveys in accordance with the procedure of the Computer Assistance Telephone Interview.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.