Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea (NRF-2021R1C1C1012386)
Article History
Received: 25 June 2024
Accepted: 8 August 2024
First Online: 25 September 2024
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in this study followed the institutional and national research committees’ ethical standards, the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki, and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All participants provided written informed consent to participate in this study. The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Institutional Review Board of Cheongju University (1041107-202110-HR-048-01).
: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.