About the Authors

Munehiro Uda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

uda@hirogaku-u.ac.jp, uda1977jp@yahoo.co.jp

Affiliation School of Nursing, Hirosaki Gakuin University, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

Toshinori Yoshihara

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, Juntendo University, Inzai, Chiba, Japan

Noriko Ichinoseki-Sekine

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, Juntendo University, Inzai, Chiba, Japan, Faculty of Liberal Arts, The Open University of Japan, Chiba, Japan

Takeshi Baba

Roles Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Inzai, Chiba, Japan

Toshitada Yoshioka

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Nursing, Hirosaki Gakuin University, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.