Liu, Jia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0990-9299
Zhang, Yuexia
Guan, Ting
Wang, Xiaomeng
Ma, Chunxuan
Northouse, Laurel
Song, Lixin
Article History
Received: 14 August 2024
Accepted: 30 April 2025
First Online: 14 May 2025
Declarations
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: In accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, this research was exempt from review by the internal review board (IRB) of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, as it did not involve human subjects. University of Michigan IRB approval of the original Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) was obtained from participating sites (IRBMED No. 2004–0129).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the original RCT study.
: The authors declare no competing interests.