Lotfi, Mohammad Hassan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1358-4984
Farajkhoda, Tahmineh https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8856-6348
Doost-Mohammadi, Fatemeh https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3867-4214
Dehghani, Ali https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9355-8035
Fallahzadeh, Hossein https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6518-366X
Sadeghiyeh, Tahereh https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7915-0049
Article History
Received: 24 April 2025
Accepted: 28 January 2026
First Online: 6 February 2026
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Yazd Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences (IR.SSU.SPH.REC.1400.227). Written informed consent was obtained from all participants, who were assured of the confidentiality and anonymity of their information, as well as their right to withdraw from the study at any stage. All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were conducted under 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.
: Written informed consent for publication of anonymized data was obtained from all participants.
: The authors declare no competing interests.