Lijuan Mei, RN, MS Senior Nurse, School of Nursing, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou; and Tongzhou Maternal & Child Health Hospital of Beijing, China.
Xing Miao, RN, BS Senior Nurse, Department of Cardiology, Fujian Province Hospital, Fuzhou, China.
Haiying Chen, RN, BS Supervisor Nurse, Second Clinic of Chinese Medicine, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China.
Xiufang Huang, RN, BS Senior Nurse, Department of Cardiology, Fujian Province Hospital, Fuzhou, China.
Guohua Zheng, PhD Professor, College of Rehabilitation Medicine, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China.
Chinese Clinical Trial Registry ChiCTR-TRC-12002362.
This study received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Correspondence Guohua Zheng, PhD, College of Rehabilitation Medicine, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No. 1 Huatuo Rd, Shangjie University Town, Fuzhou, China 350122 ([email protected]).