Kitano, Masato
Shoji, Kotaro
Nakaita, Ikumi
Sano, Shinya
Tachibana, Shoichi
Shigemura, Jun
Tachimori, Hisateru
Noguchi, Norihito
Waki, Fumiko
Edo, Naoki
Koga, Minori
Toda, Hiroyuki
Yoshino, Aihide
Nagamine, Masanori
Funding for this research was provided by:
Basic Research on Military Medicine from the National Defense Medical College
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI (19K03219)
Advanced Research on Military Medicine from the National Defense Medical College
Article History
Received: 11 July 2022
Accepted: 15 September 2023
First Online: 2 October 2023
Declarations
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: All procedures in this study complied with the ethical principles of the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2013. The Ethics Committee of the National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Japan approved the study protocols (Approval No. 2276). Since this study was conducted anonymously, written informed consent was not obtained from the participants. Instead, we disclosed the study objectives and allowed them to participate voluntarily. All participants who completed and returned the questionnaires were deemed to consent to the study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.