Yan, Chaoyang
Li, Aichun
Xiang, Qin
Wang, Jing
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Science Foundation of China (71673093)
Humanities and Social Sciences of Ministry of Education Planning Fund (16YJA840013)
Article History
Received: 6 June 2020
Accepted: 30 October 2020
First Online: 14 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Ethics Committee of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology approved the research proposal (IRB: IORG0003571). Oral informed consent was obtained from all respondents before the survey. The ethics committee agreed to our procedure because the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the funding agency of this study, did not specify the informed consent of the questionnaire survey of non-clinical trials. Secondly, we adopted the general oral notification practice of other similar studies.
: Not Applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.