Gao, Xin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7601-6485
Drani, Syazwani
Article History
Received: 9 June 2023
Accepted: 17 January 2024
First Online: 2 February 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study followed the Measures for Ethical Review of Biomedical Research Involving Human Beings issued by the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China and the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments; Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the Fifth Hospital of Yulin City (Yulin City 719000, Shaanxi Province, China), ethical approval number: 20220112E, date of approval: 12/01/2022. To ensure the interests of the study participants, with permission from the study participants, all original paper data in this study were encrypted and sealed by the archives department of the Fifth Hospital of Yulin City; and during the electronic data entry process, participants’ names were encoded and anonymized, and all were stored in encrypted storage device.
: Informed consent was obtained from all participants. Children with ASD who participated in this study had their co-participating parents sign an informed consent form.