Fu, Jing
Shang, Hong-Cai
Wang, Li-Ying
Zhao, Chen
Yang, Xiao-Fang
Guo, Wei-Wei
Lu, Chun-Xia
Cui, Jin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0106-2620
Wang, Yan-Ping
Funding for this research was provided by:
Special Research Project of Traditional Chinese Medicine (201507006-01)
Article History
Received: 7 May 2019
Accepted: 12 June 2020
First Online: 22 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The protocol (protocol version 1.4, February 17, 2016) was approved by the ethics committee of Guizhou Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (reference K2016001). The study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. All study patients signed a written informed consent form prior to participation. Participation in the study was completely voluntary. Patients could withdraw at any time. The decision to participate or withdraw did not affect their existing treatment or service received. Caregivers who were found to have significant depressive symptoms or other mental health problems were referred to appropriate health services for follow-up. All personal information collected were kept strictly confidential and used for research purposes only. Research team members are responsible for safekeeping the confidential data. Only the principal investigator and designated research staff have access to the final trial dataset.
: Written informed consent was obtained from the participant for publication of her individual details and accompanying images in this manuscript. The consent form is held by the authors and is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.