Chang, Yi-Lin
Chuang, Chi-Mu
Chien, Ching-Hui http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2528-9934
Huang, Xuan-Yi
Liang, Shu-Yuan
Liu, Chieh-Yu
Article History
Received: 8 May 2020
Accepted: 3 November 2020
First Online: 7 November 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
: The researchers strictly observed the regulations set by the Institutional Review Board. During the study, the researchers explained the content of the study to the participants that complied with the study criteria and gave them ample time to consider their willingness to participate. Questionnaire surveys were given to patients who agreed to participate to our study and consent forms were signed. Participants could withdraw from the study unconditionally without their treatment rights being affected. The researchers strictly assumed the responsibility of maintaining participants’ privacy and protected the data from being breached.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The questionnaire and methodology for this study was approved by the Human Research Ethics committee of Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan (Ethics approval number: 2018-01-001CC#1).
: This study has obtained informed consent from all participants, who completed and signed consent forms.
: This study was conducted using self-raised funds. When obtaining informed consent and consent forms from participants, we clarified that all results would be used for academic purposes. The privacy of the participants will also be protected when publishing the article, and no data from any case will be identifiable.
: The IBM SPSS statistics 20.0 (IBM Corporation 2011, Armonk, New York) was utilized to analyze the data. Furthermore, the free software of G*Power was used to estimate the sample size.