Jin, Yue
Song, Xinyu
Liu, Caixia
Xi, Zuyang
Zhang, Hanyu
Chen, Caie
Hu, Zhigang
Tian, Yufeng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (2022CFB696)
Article History
Received: 31 July 2025
Accepted: 16 December 2025
First Online: 19 December 2025
Declarations
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: This study followed the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Yichang Central People’s Hospital (Ethics Approval No. 2024–140-03), and was registered on May 14 2024 in China Clinical Trial Registration Center with the registration number of ChiCTR2400084313. All participants in the study provided informed consent and had the right to withdraw from the study at any time for any reason. Furthermore, they were assured that the survey would be used only for research purposes.
: Yue Jin and Yufeng Tian had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
: The authors declare no competing interests.