About the Authors

Yin Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yin Wu, Qinghua Ma

Affiliation Department of Nursing, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Qinghua Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Yin Wu, Qinghua Ma

Affiliation The 3rd People’s Hospital of Xiangcheng District, Suzhou, China

Hong-Peng Sun

Affiliation School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Yong Xu

Affiliation School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Mei-E Niu

meniu@suda.edu.cn (MEN); pcwonly@gmail.com (CWP)

Affiliation Department of Nursing, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Chen-Wei Pan

meniu@suda.edu.cn (MEN); pcwonly@gmail.com (CWP)

Affiliation School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YX MEN CWP. Data curation: YW QM HPS YX MEN CWP. Formal analysis: HPS. Funding acquisition: QM CWP. Investigation: QM HPS YX CWP. Methodology: HPS YX CWP. Project administration: YX MEN. Resources: YX CWP. Software: YX. Supervision: MEN CWP. Validation: CWP. Visualization: CWP. Writing – original draft: YW. Writing – review & editing: YW QM HPS YX MEN CWP.