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Received: 24 February 2024

Accepted: 16 October 2024

First Online: 12 November 2024

Competing interests

: The author declares no competing interests.

: This study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Jiangnan University for exemption from ethical review (Date: 16 June 2023). The Medical Ethics Committee of Jiangnan University stipulates that the use of anonymized information to conduct interviews and surveys that do not cause harm to human beings and do not involve sensitive personal information or commercial interests is exempt from ethical review. The conduction of questionnaire survey of this study was anonymized and did not cause harm to the respondents. Meanwhile, it did not involve sensitive personal information or commercial interests, and did not disclose the personal privacy of any respondents. Therefore, our survey is in line with the type of ethical review that can be exempted as stipulated by the Ethics Committee of Jiangnan University. The procedures used in this study adhere to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki.

: We conducted field surveys in July-August 2023 in Wuxi, Yangzhou, Huai’an and Lianyungang in Jiangsu Province. There is a written informed consent for participation on the front page of the questionnaire. In this manner, we inform the respondents of the purpose of the questionnaire and guarantee the anonymity of their personal information. In addition, we promise that the collected data will be used for research purposes only and will not be used for commercial purposes and that there are no risks involved in participating. After reading the informed consent, only when the respondent agrees to take the survey will he/she be able to start answering the questionnaire. No data were collected from anyone under 18 years old.