de Rooij, Doret http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1922-6021
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Belfroid, Evelien
Hadjichristodoulou, Christos
Mouchtouri, Varvara A.
Raab, Jörg
Timen, Aura
Funding for this research was provided by:
Consumer Programme
Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu
Article History
Received: 27 May 2020
Accepted: 7 May 2021
First Online: 29 May 2021
Declarations
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: The study protocol (LCI-386) was reviewed by the Clinical Expertise Centre of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment. Based on the study protocol, the Clinical Expertise Centre concluded that this research lays outside the scope of the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act (WMO). This study was conducted in the framework of the EU HEALTHY GATEWYAS Joint Action (Grant Agreement number: 801493). The contract described the methodology of the study conducted and was approved by the governmental authorities designated by the ministries of health of the countries that participated in the study and this Joint Action.All precautions were taken to well inform participants on the study’s scope and aims, and to protect their anonymity and confidentiality. All participants were offered the possibility to ask questions before participating in the questionnaire. Participants were asked to sign if they agreed and gave consent for processing the personal information, including according to the privacy and personal data protection statement. They were told their right to access, correct, delete or restrict their input. When respondents did not sign for informed consent, their personal information was not included in the questionnaire.
: All respondents included in the study approved publication of the data by signing consent to the following sentence in the privacy and personal data protection statement: “The data can be used for (scientific) publications.” The privacy statement (true/false) for all participants can be found in Additional file InternalRef removed, in tab ‘Prepared’ in column E named ‘privacy statement’.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.