Shateri, Somayyeh
Khatami, Seyyed Hossein
Ehtiati, Sajad
Talebzadeh, Mohammad Reza
Nikakhtar, Sadegh
Parvar, Monir Hassani
Hosseini, Seyedeh Ozra
Shahidi, Gholamali
Habibi, Amir Hossein
Salmani, Farzaneh
Namvarjah, Fatemeh
Riazi, Ali
Tafakhori, Abbas
Karima, Saeed https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8233-4551
Article History
Received: 16 August 2025
Accepted: 2 September 2025
First Online: 2 October 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors have no relevant financial or nonfinancial interests to disclose.
: The trial was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU) Ethics Committee (Reference number: IR.SBMU.MSP.REC.1395.603). All participants provided written informed consent before enrollment, and legal representatives were consulted when necessary. The study was conducted at a specialized neurology research center, with recruitment taking place over a 6-month period. The trial was also registered in the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (IRCT) under the identifier IRCT20170315033086N4. IRCT is a primary registry in the World Health Organization (WHO) International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP). .
: Informed consent was obtained from all the individual participants included in the study.
: All the authors agreed on the final version of the manuscript.