Dementia-related contact experience, attitudes, and the level of knowledge in medical vocational college students
Dong-Mei Liu, Ling Yan, Li Wang, Hui-Hui Lin, Xia-Yan Jiang, School of Nursing, Anhui Medical College, Hefei 230062, Anhui Province, China
Author contributions: Liu DM, Yan L, and Wang L contributed to the conception and design of this study; Liu DM, Yan L, Wang L, Lin HH, and Jiang XY were involved in data collection and data entry; the manuscript was drafted by Liu DM and edited by Yan L and Wang L; the final version was reviewed and approved by all the authors.
Supported by the General Project of Humanities and Social Sciences Research in Universities of Anhui Province, No. 2020SK12925B008; and Professor Wang Jian Hua’s Research and Innovation Team, No. WJH202005t.
Institutional review board statement: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Anhui Medical College (Hefei, China) (approval No. 20201008). The study was based on the Declaration of Helsinki.
Informed consent statement: The informed consent was obtained from all eligible students prior to enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: There are no conflicts of interest to report.
Data sharing statement: The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement-checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement-checklist of items.
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: Dong-Mei Liu, PhD, School of Nursing, Anhui Medical College, No. 15 Feicui Road, Economic and Technological Development Zone, Hefei 230062, Anhui Province, China. liudongmeihf@126.com
Received: June 3, 2022
Peer-review started: June 3, 2022
First decision: June 16, 2022
Revised: June 27, 2022
Accepted: August 21, 2022
Article in press: August 21, 2022
Published online: October 6, 2022
