Jinjiao Wang, PhD, RN, is Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
Joan A. Kearney, PhD, APRN, is Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Haomiao Jia, PhD, is Associate Professor; and Jingjing Shang, PhD, RN, is Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Columbia University, New York.
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Accepted for publication November 24, 2015.
The authors acknowledge an abstract of this manuscript was presented at the 2015 Research Conference of Eastern Nursing Research Society on April 16, 2015.
The authors would like to thank Ms. Kristine Kulage, Director of the Office of Scholarship & Research at Columbia University School of Nursing, for her assistance in the editing process for the article.
The authors have no conflicts of interest to report.
Corresponding author: Jinjiao Wang, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, 461 21st Ave. S., Godchaux Hall 600, Nashville, TN 37240 (e-mail: [email protected]).