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"Competing interests: The authors declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf and declare: no support from any organisation for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.: In addition, the results presented in this paper have not been published previously in whole or part, except in abstract format."

"Funding: The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded with a PhD grant from University of Rennes 1. This study was also partly funded by a grant from the French Agence de la Biomédecine and from the Fondation Paul Bennetot, groupe Matmut. The funders had no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. All authors were independent from these fund. All authors had full access to all of the data and can take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis."

"Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study obtained the ethics approval required. The quantitative component of this study was approved by the French Data Protection Authority (Commission Nationale Informatique et Liberté; n 917021). The qualitative study is compliant with the methodological frameworks defined by the French Data Protection Authority and has been registered by the French National Institute of Health Data (n 0609030619). Participants gave informed consent regarding the participation to this study before taking part."