Sugihara, Yoko
Sugisawa, Hidehiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
JSPS KAKENHI
Article History
Received: 26 March 2023
Accepted: 25 September 2023
First Online: 6 October 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures in this study were approved by the Research Ethics Boards of Tokyo Metropolitan University (approval numbers: H28-66, H31-63) and Kamakura Women’s University (approval number: 13005) and were performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. A letter of invitation explaining the study’s aims and content was provided to each potential participant. Face-to-face interviews were conducted only with those who provided consent to participate. The institutional review board waived the requirement for written informed consent because this research was not an experimental study and did not collect personally identifiable information from participants.
: Not applicable.