Khatami, Seyyed Hossein
Alehossein, Parsa
Ehtiati, Sajad
Zarei, Tayebe
Salmani, Farzaneh
Bagherzadeh, Sadegh
Razmafrooz, Mohammad
Rajabibazl, Masoumeh
Halimi, Aram
Shahmohammadi, Mohammad Reza
Jouibari, Morteza Faghih
Tafakhori, Abbas
Karima, Saeed
Article History
Received: 8 December 2024
Revised: 31 January 2025
Accepted: 31 January 2025
First Online: 7 February 2025
Declarations
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: All study procedures were carried out with approval and oversight from the Ethics Committee of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU; reference number: IR.SBMU.MSP.REC.1401.613). The trial was registered prospectively in the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (IRCT), a primary registry in the World Health Organization's registry network (URL: ), under identifier number IRCT20170315033086N11. All participants provided written informed consent by signing an authorization form before enrolling in the research. Informed consent protected participants' autonomy and rights throughout their involvement.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: All the authors agreed on the final version of the manuscript.
: The authors declare no competing interests.