Chang, Shu-Fang
Lin, Pei-Chen
Yang, Rong-Sen
Yang, Rea-Jeng
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Ministry of Science and Technology Grant (MOST 105-2314-B-227-008-MY2)
Article History
Received: 13 June 2017
Accepted: 9 January 2018
First Online: 17 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study passed the review and ethical approval by the Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Ethics Office of National Taiwan University (IRB-Reference Code: 201402ES013) in Taiwan. To protect the privacy as well as the rights and interests of the study participants, the study objectives, methods, and amount of time to be spent were explained to the older people. The older people could decide whether to take part in the study or withdraw midway without it having an adverse effect on the care that they received in the institution. All the written consent was obtained from participants. The research data were solely used for research purposes and strictly kept confidential. The names of the participants and the questionnaire numbers were replaced with codes prior to analyses to ensure the participants’ data security.
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