Niles, Barbara L. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2342-9737
Kaiser, Anica Pless https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4803-0191
Crow, Thomas https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6227-2069
McQuade, Maria
Polizzi, Craig https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9270-6868
Palumbo, Carole
Krengel, Maxine
Sullivan, Kimberly https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7940-6123
Wang, Chenchen
Mori, DeAnna L. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8156-7364
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (SPLD-004-15S)
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (R01AT006367, R01AT005521, K24AT007323)
Rheumatology Research Foundation
Office of Academic Affiliations, Department of Veterans Affairs
Article History
Accepted: 13 November 2024
First Online: 16 December 2024
Declarations
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: This study protocol involving human participants was approved by the Institutional Review Board of VA Boston Healthcare System (IRB Study #2956). All procedures performed involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: Informed consent was obtained from all participants after study procedures were fully explained.
: The authors declare no competing interests.