Wang, Yizhen
Zhang, Xiaomeng
Wang, Chao
Xing, Xiaoming
Nayak, Vrinda
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Chinese Scholarship Council
the Shandong Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project from the Department of Education of Shandong Province (Grant No. Z2022112)
Article History
Received: 23 February 2026
Accepted: 9 June 2026
First Online: 18 June 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Ethical approval for this study was granted by the College of Medicine and Health Research Ethics Committee at University of Exeter (approval reference:148/24/04/04), under the overarching approval for Postgraduate Taught Masters low-risk research projects (reference: Sept21/B/263Δ1). All participants provided informed consent prior to their inclusion in the study.
Consent for publication: The participants agreed to the publication of the anonymized data obtained from this study. This manuscript does not contain any personally identifiable information, and all participant quotations are presented anonymously using participant codes.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.