Ghafouri, Raziyeh
Azizi, Zahra
Moradi, Sara
Nazari, Mahboubeh
Article History
Received: 12 September 2025
Accepted: 28 November 2025
First Online: 4 December 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declared no conflict of interest concerning the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
: This study received approval from the Research Ethics Committees of the Vice-Chancellor for Research Affairs at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. Accordingly, written informed consent was obtained from all participants after clearly explaining the study’s objectives. Participants were assured of their right to freely participate or withdraw from the research at any point. All research procedures complied with the ethical guidelines of the Iranian National Committee for Biomedical Research (ethical code: IR.SBMU.RETECH.REC.1402.634) on 2024-01-07, and this is available at: . This study was registered in the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (irct.behdasht.gov.ir) on 2025-07-15, with the IRCT ID: IRCT20210131050189N14 and that is available at: irct.behdasht.gov.ir/search/result?query = IRCT20210131050189N14 or