Sekizler, Emine Temizkan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0466-8273
Atan, Şenay Ünsal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5119-5704
Article History
Received: 5 November 2025
Accepted: 6 August 2026
First Online: 16 September 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: Ethical approval was secured from the Ege University Medical Research Ethics Committee (Decision No: 22–8.1 T/8), in addition to all requisite institutional permissions from the participating facilities. The trial was also prospectively registered with the clinicaltrials.gov registry (URL: , NCT05901298, Registered 16/05/2023). This study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants separately for the intervention and control groups using an informed consent form.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have influenced the work reported in this paper.