Sasayama, Daimei https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3450-7283
Kudo, Tetsuya
Kaneko, Wakako
Kuge, Rie
Koizumi, Noriaki
Nomiyama, Tetsuo
Washizuka, Shinsuke
Honda, Hideo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Promotion Project of Education, Research, and Medical Care from Shinshu University Hospital
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (H30-shintai-ippan-002)
Meiji Yasuda Mental Health Foundation
Article History
First Online: 21 July 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee (Ethics Committee of Shinshu University School of Medicine, reference numbers 3297, 3614, and 3905) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: The ethics review committee (Ethics Committee of Shinshu University School of Medicine) determined that informed consent was not required due to the nature of the study. Caregivers of the study subjects were informed of their option to opt out via our institutional website and posters posted in the city hall of Okaya-shi.