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Yao, Yao
Li, Meixian
Chang, Charles B.
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Research Grants Council (General Research Fund) of Hong Kong (15611322)
Research Grants Council (General Research Fund) of Hong Kong (15611322)
Research Grants Council (General Research Fund) of Hong Kong (15611322)
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Article History
Received: 25 July 2025
Accepted: 16 March 2026
First Online: 27 March 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Apr 6, 2022 (ethics approval number HSEAR20220405004). The approval covered all work reported in this article. All study protocols were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants, who received a nominal amount of monetary compensation for their time and effort. Consent was obtained between July and December 2023, by the researcher from the participant directly, and covered participation, data use, and data publication. All participants were fully informed of possible risks of the study as well as of the anonymity and intended use of their data; they were also debriefed on the aims of the research.
