Zhong, Dongmei
Wu, Yimin
Aarons, Gregory A
Hutchinson, Alison M
Wong, William CW
Lv, Sensen
Song, Zaiwei
Wu, Yanni
Bishai, David Makram
Chen, Ken
Yang, Nan
Chen, Yaolong
Liu, Zhaolan
Yan, Lijiao
Zhou, Pengxiang
Xu, Dong Roman https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7438-632X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (81067392)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (72304007)
Article History
Received: 10 March 2025
Accepted: 1 August 2025
First Online: 16 October 2025
Declarations
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: Ethics approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China (# Southern Medical Audit (2024) No. 012). All participants provided informed consent prior to each interview and each survey.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interest. Dong (Roman) Xu, one of the authors of this paper, is an editor for Implementation Science Communications Journal. Alison M. Hutchinson is a Protocols Editor, and Gregory A. Aarons is a member of the Editorial Board for Implementation Science Communications Journal. All editorial roles have had no involvement in the peer review or editorial decision-making process for this manuscript. The remaining authors declare that they have no competing interests.