About the Authors

Huiwen Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Huiwen Xu, Chen Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

Affiliations School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China, Faculty of Nursing, Nagano College of Nursing, Komagane, Japan

Chen Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Huiwen Xu, Chen Wu

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Yangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yangzhou, China

Lingyan Zhang

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Yangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yangzhou, China

Yangqin Ju

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Yangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yangzhou, China

Jie Chen

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Yangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yangzhou, China

Qian Hu

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

Shuang Qiu

Roles Conceptualization

qsmk361@sina.com

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Yangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.