Rezazadeh, Mahnaz Boroumand
Zanganeh, Minoo
Jarahi, Lida
Fatehi, Zahra
Article History
Received: 15 January 2024
Accepted: 17 October 2024
First Online: 26 October 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study procedures were carried out following the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and the Helsinki Declaration. Ethical approval for the study was granted by the Ethics Committee of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, with the ethical code IR.MUMS.MEDICAL.REC.1398.736. The trial was also registered at the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials with registration number IRCT20190202042596N1 which was registered on 2020-02-03.
: <i>Consent</i>.
: All patients participating in the study gave their informed consent after understanding the nature of the procedures involved. All patient data were anonymized and coded to maintain confidentiality.
: The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest in relation to the work presented in this study.