Doustmohammadian, Azam
Amirkalali, Bahareh
Gholizadeh, Esmaeel
Khoonsari, Mahmoodreza
Faraji, Amir Hossein
Nikkhah, Mehdi
Maadi, Mansooreh
Motamed, Nima
Mansourian, Mohsen Reza
Hajjar, Melika
Clark, Cain C. T.
Chaibakhsh, Samira
Tameshkel, Fahimeh Safarnezhad
Afzali, Arian
Zamani, Farhad
Funding for this research was provided by:
Iran University of Medical Sciences (99-2-30-19054)
Article History
Received: 23 November 2021
Revised: 31 October 2022
Accepted: 9 November 2022
First Online: 28 November 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The current study was conducted according to the guidelines laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki, and procedures involving human subjects/patients were approved by the Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) ethical committee (No. IR.IUMS.REC.1399.1393). Written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to the study.