Bafrouei, Mostafa Jalili
Mirkarimpour, Seyed Hossein
Seyedi, Mohammadreza
Article History
Received: 29 July 2025
Accepted: 17 October 2025
First Online: 11 November 2025
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, under the ethical code identifier IR.IAU.SRB.REC.1403.152. All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee, the Declaration of Helsinki, and relevant national and institutional guidelines and regulations. Written informed consent to participate was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. As all participants were older than 16 years, parental or guardian consent was not required.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.