Nikkhoo, Bahram
Farhang, Farzaneh
Ghanei Gheshlagh, Reza
Albatineh, Ahmed Najeeb
Rahmani, Khaled https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0860-8040
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health Research (TUMS.NIHR.REC.1396.59)
Article History
Received: 12 November 2022
Revised: 7 July 2023
Accepted: 23 July 2023
First Online: 21 August 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: 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. the Ethical Review Committee of the National Institute for Health Research, Islamic Republic of Iran (Ethic code: IR. TUMS.NIHR.REC.1396.59). Informed consent was obtained from all subjects and their legal guardian (for illiterate). All experimental protocols were approved by the ethics committee/Institutional Review Board of the National Institute for Health Research, Islamic Republic of Iran.