Au, Mio Leng
Li, Yue Yi
Tong, Lai Kun
Wang, Si Chen
Ng, Wai I
Funding for this research was provided by:
Higher Education Fund of Macao SAR Government (HSS-KWNC-2021-01, HSS-KWNC-2021-01, HSS-KWNC-2021-01, HSS-KWNC-2021-01, HSS-KWNC-2021-01)
Article History
Received: 4 January 2023
Accepted: 18 September 2023
First Online: 6 October 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This research was approved by the Research Management and Development Department of Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau (No. REC-2021.801) and conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki. The Research Management and Development Department is in charge of ethical approvals of scientific research projects, as well as issuing the ethical approval documents. It was a completely voluntary, anonymous, and unrewarded study. Informed consent was obtained from all the participants. The participants read and agreed to the informed consent before starting to fill in the questionnaire. In order to assured voluntariness, participants could withdraw at any time without losing benefits. Anonymity was guaranteed by not collecting any personal identification information (such as names). Confidentiality was ensured by storing data on a computer protected by a password known only by the researchers.
: Not applicable.