Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Article History
Accepted: 16 November 2023
First Online: 13 February 2024
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: This study was funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (16 K17323).
: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.
: All procedures performed in studies 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. The study was approved by Konan University’s Institutional Review Board.
: Informed consent or assent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Parental consent was sought under the guidance of schools. Consent from school principals was also obtained. This procedure was approved by the authors’ IRB.