Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea (NRF-2021R1C1C1012386)
Article History
Received: 6 January 2025
Accepted: 27 August 2025
First Online: 9 September 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
: 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 (1041107-202306-HR-024-01).
: The funding source was not involved in the study design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data, writing of the report, or decision to submit the article for publication.