Chen, Huailiang
Yang, Yang
Huang, Yuling
Dai, Yingxue
Zhang, Jianxin
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health and family planning commission of Chengdu (2015012)
Article History
Received: 12 February 2018
Accepted: 31 August 2018
First Online: 10 September 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the institutional review boards of the People’s Hospital of Chengdu Tianfu New Area. Verbal informed consent was obtained from all participants. The study collected data on sexual identity, drug use and sexual behaviors, which were still sensitive in China. Thus, participants were willing to provide verbal consent instead of written consent, despite that the purpose of the study were fully explained to participants and confidentiality of their information was guaranteed by anonymous questionnaire survey.
: Not applicable.
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