Wang, Xiaojia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5294-1599
He, Linglan
Zhu, Keyu
Zhang, Shanshan
Xin, Ling
Xu, Weiqun
Guan, Yuxiang
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (71101041)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (61876055)
National Statistics Research Projects (2013LZ07)
Article History
Received: 19 November 2018
Accepted: 10 September 2019
First Online: 22 October 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was conducted with an approval by the Medical Ethics Committee (MEC) of the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The MEC waived the mandate for obtaining a written informed consent from subjects. Participants were provided with an information sheet which detailed relevant information about the study, potential benefits and risks of participation in this study, the opportunity and means to ask questions, and the options regarding voluntary agreement to participate in this study. Verbal consent was then requested prior to commencement of the survey. This study was provided as an anonymous survey of individuals for which no personal, identifiable information was collected.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.