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"Declarations Conflict of interestThe authors did not receive support from any organization for the submitted work. the authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose. Ethical approvalThis study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Ethics Committee of the Department of Psychological, Health, and Territorial Sciences (DiSPuTer) of University G. d’Annunzio—Chieti-Pescara (Prot. n. 254 of 03/14/2017). Informed consentInformed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Conflict of interest The authors did not receive support from any organization for the submitted work. the authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose."

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