Abdi, Saeid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0292-2952
Kangari, Haleh https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8298-9574
Rahmani, Saeed https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6330-4405
Akbarzadeh Baghban, Alireza https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0961-1874
Kamary Rad, Zahra https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4922-2803
Article History
Received: 26 July 2024
Accepted: 8 January 2025
First Online: 17 January 2025
Declarations
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: This study is part of a larger research that received approval from the Research Ethics Committees of the Vice-Chancellor in Research Affairs at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (Approval ID: IR.SBMU.RETECH.REC.1400.610) on November 28th, 2021, and has been registered on ClinicalTrials.gov under the identifier NCT05311917. The research project strictly adhered to the ethical guidelines outlined by the Declaration of Helsinki for conducting medical studies involving human subjects. Informed consent was obtained from all participants in the study by S.A. To safeguard the confidentiality of individuals, each participant was assigned a unique code, and access to the final data was restricted to S.A.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.