Wang, Tongyao https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3374-1078
Ho, Mu-Hsing https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9443-4082
Tse, Nick https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0100-3049
Lin, Chia-Chin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9551-0991
Funding for this research was provided by:
Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Charity Foundation (Endowment Professorship Fund in Nursing)
Article History
Received: 16 March 2025
Accepted: 2 September 2025
First Online: 26 September 2025
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of The University of Hong Kong/Hospital Authority Hong Kong West Cluster (UW 22–586) and has been registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT05901506). All participants provided informed consent. The study adhered to the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent to participate was obtained from all of the participants in the study.
: The authors, TW, MH, and CL, declare no conflict of interest. While, the author, NT, acknowledges a possible conflict of interest as he received an honorarium (HKD19,900) for offering motivational interviewing training and intervention protocol review for the study.