Liang, Zhanming
Blackstock, Felicity C. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1756-406X
Howard, Peter
Liu, Chaojie
Leggat, Geoffrey
Ma, Hongkun
Zhang, Zhijun
Bartram, Timothy
Article History
Received: 29 August 2019
Accepted: 24 July 2020
First Online: 6 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval was obtained from the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) of La Trobe University (HREC No. S15–75) prior to conducting the project. Ethics approval from La Trobe University was provided to all sites in China, and the sites were satisfied with approval from an Australian organisation to conduct the study. A confirmation letter of involvement from all study sites in China was provided to La Trobe University HREC at the time of approval. Consent to participate was sought from all participants before the start of the study and was obtained from each participant in a written format.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests and no conflicts of interest related to the publication of this manuscript.