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. 2025 Nov 28.
doi: 10.1186/s12877-025-06698-8. Online ahead of print.

Hope level and its associated factors among widowed older adults in long-term care facilities

Li Chen  1 , Wei Liu  2 , Renshan Cui  3
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Hope level and its associated factors among widowed older adults in long-term care facilities

Li Chen et al. BMC Geriatr. .
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Keywords: Associated factors; Hope level; Long-term care facilities; Widowed older adults.

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Declarations. Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was followed by the Declaration of Helsinki and obtained informed consent from all participants in this research.This study has been reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated Hospital, ethics review approval document: 2022190FS(KT)-013-02. Consent for publication: Not applicable. Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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