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Article History

Received: 13 July 2018

Accepted: 2 October 2018

First Online: 25 October 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethical Approval was gained from the Nursing and Behavioral Medicine Institutional Review Boards, Xiangya School of Nursing, Central South University (Approval number: 2017035). All residents (or their proxies) and staff in the study will be provided with information packs so that they can give informed and written consent. Residents (or their proxies) and staff and nursing homes will be given a unique numerical code to ensure anonymity. Information provided by residents (proxies) and staff will be collected in a de-identifiable form and treated confidentially. Data collected in this study will be stored in a secure area in the University in which the first author is employed. All data related to the study will be accessible only to the researchers.

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