Ziaei, Reza http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-4192
Mohammadi, Reza
Dastgiri, Saeed
Baybordi, Elaheh
Rahimi, Vahab Asl
Sadeghi-Bazargani, Homayoun
Viitasara, Eija
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (5/4/8860)
Article History
Received: 24 June 2020
Accepted: 1 October 2020
First Online: 14 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The Ethics Committee of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences granted approval for the study [5/4/7180, 1391/08/10]. One week prior to the survey, consent forms were distributed to all parents of students in the participating classes through the school authorities and these were collected from students on the day of administration. In Iran, parents or legal guardians are legally responsible for their children under the age of 18; therefore, their consent was necessary. All parents or legal guardians provided consent to participate on behalf of their child. All students also were informed about the voluntary and anonymous nature of the study and were told that they could terminate their participation at any time during the survey.All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: There are no conflict of interests.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Not applicable.