Acknowledgement
Authors appreciate the help of Neurosurgical nurse specialist (Min-Hee Kim, RN. & Hae-Sun Jung, RN.) to collect the data and the grammatical review of our manuscript by Ann C Rice, PhD of the J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA, USA.
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