Ito, Jun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7009-5143
Fukagawa, Masafumi
Article History
Received: 1 July 2023
Accepted: 17 January 2024
First Online: 10 February 2024
Declarations
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: All the authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.
: The present study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Hyogo University (approval number 13016) in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards, as well as the “Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects” by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan. The study was carried out based on a contract between Kobe City and Hyogo University. The deidentified data from the SHC were provided to the researchers. Through a message on the website of Kobe City and posters in the SHC venues, all examinees who underwent SHCs by the NHI in Kobe City between 2014 and 2018 were notified of the purpose of this study, the content, the method of data collection, and the opportunity for examinees to exclude their data from the study without any disadvantage.