Hayit, Huseyin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7117-592X
Yesildal, Cumhur https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1518-8371
Yilmaz, Omer https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4433-9431
Barac, Yahya https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9085-5632
Bursali, Kerem https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7187-6240
Yilmaz, Anil https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5014-4641
Article History
Received: 4 October 2025
Accepted: 3 February 2026
First Online: 11 February 2026
Declarations
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: This study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Hamidiye Scientific Research Ethics Committee of the University of Health Sciences (approval no: 20/468). 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.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Language editing and translation assistance from Turkish to English for selected sections of the manuscript (Abstract, Introduction, and Discussion) were provided with the assistance of ChatGPT (OpenAI, San Francisco, CA, USA). All scientific content, data interpretation, and final wording were critically reviewed and approved by the authors, who take full responsibility for the integrity of the work.