Author’s contribution:
APR: conception and design of the study, acquisition of data, analysis
and interpretation of data, drafting the article
MF: acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data
KN: analysis and interpretation of data, statistics, revising the
article
BM: acquisition of data, revising the article critically for important
intellectual content
BS: acquisition of data
LR: analysis and interpretation of data, revising the article critically
for important intellectual content
DS: conception and design of the study, revising the article critically
for important intellectual content
Details of Ethics Approval - Institutional review board approval
was obtained from the Ethical Committee of the Canton Berne (reference
number 2020-00832).
Funding: No funding has been received for conducting the study
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