Feng, Ning
Dong, Yanhui
Liu, Shelan
Dong, Xiaoping
Funding for this research was provided by:
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (131031001000160006)
Article History
Received: 19 January 2022
Accepted: 14 October 2022
First Online: 28 October 2022
Declarations
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: This research was conducted according to the guidelines laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki. The aim and content of the research was explained to the experts prior to their participation of the survey. The experts participating of the research in the survey is regarded as informed consent which has been noted at the beginning of the questionnaire. There was a written expression on the title page of the questionnaire as: Participation in the questionnaire is voluntary, can be suspended at any time. The experts who didn't agree with the questionnaire would quit on their own. There is no biological sample collected from the experts who participated the questionnaire survey, neither individual information nor its correlation with the answers was publicized, data analysis focused on expert group in total but not the individual perspective. In China, there is no related provision to require that sociological survey research should go through ethics review. So, the ethics committee’s approval on the research was not mandatory.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.