About the Authors

Takashi Sugimoto

t-sugimoto@pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Health Technology Assessment and Public Policy, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tomohiro Shinozaki

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Naruse

Affiliation Department of Community Health Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yuki Miyamoto

Affiliation Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: T. Sugimoto T. Shinozaki. Performed the experiments: T. Sugimoto. Analyzed the data: T. Sugimoto. Wrote the paper: T. Sugimoto. Acquisition of data: T. Sugimoto YM. Gave the first author critical comments to interpret the data and revise the manuscript: T. Shinozaki TN YM.