Dong-Xu Li, Li-Ping Yin, Yu-Qi Song, Nan-Nan Shao, Huan Zhu, Chen-Sen He, Jiang-Jie Sun
Dong-Xu Li, Yu-Qi Song, Huan Zhu, First Clinical Medical College, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, Anhui Province, China
Li-Ping Yin, Chen-Sen He, School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, Anhui Province, China
Nan-Nan Shao, School of Clinical Medicine, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230031, Anhui Province, China
Jiang-Jie Sun, School of Health Care Management, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, Anhui Province, China
Co-first authors: Dong-Xu Li and Li-Ping Yin.
Co-corresponding authors: Chen-Sen He and Jiang-Jie Sun.
Author contributions: Li DX, Yin LP, Sun JJ, and He CS designed this study (substantial contributions to the conception); Li DX, Yin LP, Song YQ, Shao NN, and Zhu H collected data; Li DX and Yin LP extracted and analyzed data, interpretation of data for the work; Sun JJ and He CS provided guidance for statistical analysis and provided financial support. They agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy; Li DX and Yin LP wrote the manuscript; Li DX, Yin LP, Song YQ, Shao NN, Zhu H, Sun JJ and He CS reviewed the manuscript; Li DX and Yin LP contributed equally to this work as co-first authors; Sun JJ and He CS contributed equally to this work as co-corresponding authors. The reasons for designating Li DX and Yin LP as co-first authors are as follows. First, Li DX and Yin LP contributed equal effort throughout the study. The selection of these researchers as co-first authors respects their equal contributions. Second, the research was conducted as a collaborative effort, and the designation of co-first authors accurately reflects the distribution of responsibilities and burdens associated with the time and effort required to complete the research and final paper. The reasons for designating Sun JJ and He CS as co-corresponding authors are as follows. First, Sun JJ and He CS put equal effort into the entire study. Second, the designation of co-corresponding authors best reflects the need for this study to have authors from different fields, which promotes the most in-depth examination of the research topic. In summary, we believe that the designation of Li DX and Yin LP as co-first authors and Sun JJ and He CS as co-corresponding authors meets the requirements of our manuscript, which reflects the spirit of equality and cooperation in our team.
Supported by the Natural Science Foundation for the Higher Education Institutions of Anhui Province of China, No. 2023AH050561, No. 2022AH051143, No. KJ2021A0266, and No. KJ2021A1228; and School-level offline courses, No. 2021xjkc13.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare no competing interests.
PRISMA 2009 Checklist statement: The authors have read the PRISMA 2009 Checklist, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the PRISMA 2009 Checklist.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Jiang-Jie Sun, PhD, Professor, School of Health Care Management, Anhui Medical University, No. 81 Meishan Road, Hefei 230032, Anhui Province, China. sunjiangjie@ahmu.edu.cn
Received: September 25, 2023
Peer-review started: September 25, 2023
First decision: December 6, 2023
Revised: December 13, 2023
Accepted: February 2, 2024
Article in press: February 2, 2024
Published online: March 15, 2024
