Fu, Qinwei
Xie, Hui
Zhou, Li
Li, Xinrong
Liu, Yang
Liu, Min
Wang, Chaoyu
Wang, Xiaocen
Wang, Zhiqiao
Tang, Jinfan
Xiao, Huan
Xiao, Zhiyong
Zhou, Jing
Feng, Chengzhi
Wang, Li
Ao, Zhimin
Chen, Xi
Su, Chang
Wu, Xuanyu
Zhao, Maolan
Hu, Sihan
Lin, Hanwen
Huang, Jiali
Xu, Guo
Zhang, Qinxiu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8746-0277
Jiang, Luyun
Article History
Received: 20 October 2021
Accepted: 16 November 2021
First Online: 27 November 2021
Declarations
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: Approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China, on February 2, 2021, with certificate No. 2021KL-015. Before inclusion in the study, participants will be informed of the purpose of the study and of the clinical procedures required by the protocol. The investigators in each hospital will explain the purpose, risks, and benefits associated with study participation. In addition, participants will be informed of their right to withdraw from the study at any time without explanation and without losing the right to future medical care. Every participant is free to leave the study protocol at any stage of the study, may withdraw his or her consent, and may request that all of his or her data be eliminated from the database.
: No baseline or pilot data is included in this study protocol. Figure shows distribution of the auricular acupoints selected in our study on the surface of auricle, and it was approved by one of our authors (Zhiqiao Wang, whose auricle is showed in the Fig. ) with informed consent signed.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.