Zeitounlouian, Talar S.
Zeno, Kinan G.
Brad, Bassel A.
Haddad, Rania A.
Article History
Received: 9 April 2020
Accepted: 27 November 2020
First Online: 22 January 2021
Compliance with ethical guidelines
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: T. S. Zeitounlouian, K. G. Zeno, B. A. Brad and R. A. Haddad declare that they have no competing interests.
: This randomized study was approved by the institutional review board and ethical review committee of Damascus University (Damascus, Syria; institutional review board no. 2473). The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement was followed as a guide for this study that was registered at Clinicaltrials.gov with an identifier number (NCT03399422). Written informed consent to participate and for publication was obtained from all individual participants or their parents/legally authorized representatives [LAR] in the case of children under 18 included in the study.