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Article History

Received: 10 September 2023

Accepted: 16 January 2024

First Online: 6 February 2024

Declarations

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: The study was approved by the Ethics committee of Wuhan University of Technology. The data we used was from a national survey approved by the State Council (Can Lian Fa No.55[2018]), conducted in all of the province-level administrative regions of mainland China and performed by the China Disabled Persons’ Federation and the National Bureau of Statistics. The survey was conducted within the legal framework governed by statistical law in China. For using this data, we received permission from Disabled Persons’ Federation, Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone. The records of participants were anonymized without any personal identifiers. This is a retrospective analysis of secondary anonymized data. The need for informed consent was waived by the Ethics committee of Wuhan University of Technology.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.