Li, Huijun
Liu, Xiaoling
Zheng, Qingyong
Zeng, Siyuan
Luo, Xiaofeng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (lzujbky-2018-15)
Article History
Received: 18 March 2023
Accepted: 18 September 2023
First Online: 13 October 2023
Declarations
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: Electronic informed consent form was approved by Ethics/ Institutional Review Board (IRB) committee. This study was conducted according to the guidelines laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki, and all procedures involving research study participants were approved by the IRB of the School of Public Health, Lanzhou University (approval dated September 18, 2020, issue: IRB20091801).Although the study included three 15-year-olds, parental informed consent was not obtained for the following reasons: first of all, our study involves college students, so parental informed consent is not applicable to this study. On the other hand, because we are studying sexual minorities, their sexual identity is more private, and most people are not out to their parents. To protect the privacy of our subjects, we were restricted from obtaining informed parental consent. Finally, our study only involved questionnaires, which did no harm to the respondents.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.