Wettstein, Dominik J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-212X
Boes, Stefan
Article History
Received: 8 March 2020
Accepted: 2 March 2021
First Online: 16 March 2021
Declarations
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: The research design was submitted to the national database BASEC (Business Administration System for Ethics Committees) of swissethics (Swiss Ethics Committees on research involving humans) before the implementation of the experiment. The local ethics commission of the Canton of Zurich reviewed the application and confirmed that the project does not fall within the scope of the Swiss Human Research Act (HRA) and therefore no authorization was required. Participants had to state an informed consent (electronically) prior to the experiment.
: All authors provided consent for their names to be included for publication.
: The first author (DWE) is an external PhD student at the University of Lucerne and was employed at the pharmaceutical company Takeda Pharma AG Switzerland and at the health insurance company Helsana AG while performing this research. Neither the former nor the later employer of the first author nor any other private or public entity supported or influenced this research in any relevant way. The second author (SB) has no conflicts of interest to declare. All of the authors submitted a signed Conflict of Interest disclosure form.