Khoshakhlagh, Amir Hossein https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2265-5054
Sulaie, Saleh Al
Cousins, Rosanna https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4829-5138
Yazdanirad, Saeid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5251-6637
Laal, Fereydoon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8410-3511
Article History
Received: 31 May 2024
Accepted: 11 October 2024
First Online: 22 October 2024
Declarations
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: The Research Ethics Committee of Birjand University of Medical Sciences (BUMS) granted ethics approval for this study (No. IR.BUMS.REC.1401.195). The study was completed in accordance with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.
: The authors declare that they have no competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. We formally declare that those authors who reside in a nation or region currently under international sanctions (i.e., Iran) are academics and scientists are not employed by the government of that country under sanctions; and all these authors are preparing articles in their “personal capacity”.