Huai, Pengcheng http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9658-018X
Li, Furong
Li, Zhen
Sun, Lele
Fu, Xi’an
Pan, Qing
Yu, Gongqi
Chai, Zemin
Chu, Tongsheng
Mi, Zihao
Bao, Fangfang
Wang, Honglei
Zhou, Bingni
Wang, Chuan
Sun, Yonghu
Niu, Guiye
Zhang, Yuan
Fu, Fanghui
Lang, Xiaoqiao
Wang, Xiaoling
Zhao, Hui
Liu, Daina
Liu, Hong
Liu, Dianchang
Liu, Jian
Xu, Aiqiang
Zhang, Furen
Funding for this research was provided by:
The National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFE0201500)
The Innovation Project of Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences
The Syphilis and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases Control Research in Shandong
Article History
Received: 23 June 2018
Accepted: 3 October 2018
First Online: 26 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles stated in the Helsinki Declaration. This study was reviews and approved by the Ethics Committee of Shandong Provincial Institute of Dermatology and Venereology (approval number: 2016–04). There were several sensitive questions related to sex in the questionnaires. Participants may refuse to answer those questions or provide untruthful information if they signed informed consent. In order to obtain true and accurate information, oral informed consent instead of written consent was obtained from each participant by interviewers before interview. This procedure was approved by the ethics committee. The name was not written on the questionnaire and the confidentiality of the data was kept properly.
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