About the Authors

Rong Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ RZ and YY are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation School of Nursing, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Yuhuan Yin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ RZ and YY are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Yiyin Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation School of Nursing, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Yuping Feng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation School of Nursing, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Hongyan Meng

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation School of Nursing, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Jing Wang

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation School of Nursing, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Min Zhang

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Scientific Research Office, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Juxia Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

juxia2008@hotmail.com

Affiliation Clinical Educational Department, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.