Zeng, Wen
Shang, Shaomei
Fang, Qian
He, Shan
Li, Juan
Yao, Yuanrong
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2020 YFC 2008800)
Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Karst Science Research Center of Guizhou Province (81860245)
Article History
Received: 24 February 2021
Accepted: 26 October 2021
First Online: 17 November 2021
Declarations
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: Under the guidance of principles of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki [CitationRef removed], it was taken into the first consideration to respect participants’ rights and to protect their health and rights. The investigation was an anonymous survey. Informed consent was delivered verbally when participants were included and accessed online. In addition, the informed consent agreement was imported into the survey plat. Subjects agreed on the verbal informed consent and could choose to answer the questionnaire based on their willingness. Since the current study was a cross-sectional study in which the only risk was about participants’ privacy. Therefore, when conducting the survey, the participants would be informed about the purpose of the study, the way and the time of conducting the survey, their rights to refuse the survey, and how their information was stored, protected, and used in an academic way. The study was approved by the Ethical Committee of the corresponding institution, Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital (reference 2,018,072).
: Not applicable.
: None declared.