Factors influencing participant compliance in acupuncture trials: An in-depth interview study

• Hui-Juan Cao ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: huijuancao327@hotmail.com (HJC); jianping_l@hotmail.com (JPL)

  Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3244-6288

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• Xun Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xun Li, Xin-Lin Li, Lesley Ward

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Xin-Lin Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xun Li, Xin-Lin Li, Lesley Ward

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation China Press of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Lesley Ward ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xun Li, Xin-Lin Li, Lesley Ward

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Sport, Exercise & Rehabilitation, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7285-2032

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• Zhan-Guo Xie,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation The Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, First People’s Hospital of Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

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• Hui Hu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation The Department of Acupuncture and Metabolic Diseases, Dongfang Hospital Affiliated to Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Ya-Jing Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of information and literature, Jiangxi Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jiangxi Province, China

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• Jian-Ping Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: huijuancao327@hotmail.com (HJC); jianping_l@hotmail.com (JPL)

  Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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