He, Yichao
Hadjri, Karim
Woolley, Helen
Xiong, Jie
Article History
Received: 10 November 2024
Accepted: 1 September 2025
First Online: 2 October 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study received ethical approval from the University of Sheffield (Approval number: 024542), granted on 10 April 2019. The research was conducted in accordance with the University’s Research Ethics Policy and Good Research & Innovation Practices Policy. All personal data collected during the project adhered to relevant legal and regulatory guidelines. All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study between April 2019 and May 2019. Participants were fully informed about the study’s purpose, procedures, and their rights, including guarantees of anonymity and the use of data for research and publication purposes. The study employed qualitative methods, such as semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis, which posed no foreseeable risks to participants.