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"Declarations AcknowledgementsWe would like to acknowledge the participants of this study. Authors’ contributionsKN, conceived the study and KN, MI draft the questionnaire. KN, KS, FT performed statistical analyses and KN and MG interpreted psychological results. KN wrote the draft which was edited by all other authors. All authors took responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. All the authors made critical revisions to the manuscript for important intellectual content and gave final approval of the manuscript. FundingThis study was funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (Grants for Scientific Research [B], Number 21H03192). Availability of data and materialsThe datasets used and/or analyzed during the present study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. Ethics approval and consent to participateThe protocol of this study was approved by ethical committee of Akita University, School of Medicine (No. 2712). Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding This study was funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (Grants for Scientific Research [B], Number 21H03192)."