Mehboodi, Mahtab
Saffari, Fereshteh
Hosseini-Nave, Hossein
Ahmadi, Bizhan
Ahmadrajabi, Roya https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5636-7037
Funding for this research was provided by:
Vice Chancellor for Research and Technology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences (402001020)
Article History
Received: 27 August 2025
Accepted: 11 November 2025
First Online: 24 November 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Research Council of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran (IR.KMU.REC.1403.268). Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.