Chen, Lifen
Zhao, Yali
Tang, Juan
Jin, Guanghui
Liu, Yanli
Zhao, Xuexue
Chen, Chao
Lu, Xiaoqin
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Beijing Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science under its Social Science Fund Project (16SRB015)
Article History
Received: 23 August 2018
Accepted: 7 February 2019
First Online: 20 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was granted by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University. We mainly interviewed the family caregivers of patients about patient basic information, caregiver basic information, and the views of caregivers, such that the patients were not involved in designing the study and outcome measures. Written consent was obtained from the participants with full explanation of the purpose and procedure of the study. Confidentiality of data and personal information was assured.
: We have obtained consent for publication from the participants. The informed consent obtained from the participants had been in writing.
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