Article History
Received: 20 April 2020
Accepted: 29 June 2020
First Online: 9 July 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Use of this questionnaire was approved by the rectors of Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz (LAZ, CH) as well as Bundesgymnasium Tanzenberg (BT, Austria) respectively and by the department of education of the county Carinthia (A/0013-R/2019) as part of the high school thesis of Ch.Z. A separate approval by an ethics committee is not required according to the Austrian School Education Act. Answers were provided anonymously, and participants were instructed verbally before beginning that filling in the questionnaire acted as their consent to analysis and publications, and that they could withdraw consent at any time by stopping the questionnaire. Therefore, consent was implied upon completion of the questionnaire. No separate consent from parents or guardians was obtained. This is in accordance with §34 paragraph 3 number 1 and §46 paragraph 2 of the Austrian School Education Act (Schulunterrichtsgesetz, SchUGes), which says that questionnaires for high school theses are permitted without any additional need for consent of parents or other authorities (e.g. ethics commitees) after approval of the supervising teacher and the approval of the rector of the school.
: Not applicable.
: None of the authors reports a conflict of interest.