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Bagheri, Majid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9640-2340
Shiryani, Morteza
Mehralizade, Sara
Basirinezhad, Mohammad Hasan
Bagheri, Hossein
Abbasi, Ali https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0482-6208
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Article History
Received: 23 April 2025
Accepted: 28 August 2025
First Online: 2 October 2025
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: The study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki which includes explaining the study objectives, obtaining informed consent from the study participants, emphasizing the voluntary nature of participation, ensuring the right to withdraw from the study, assuring no harm from answering questions, and providing results upon request. Ethical approval was obtained from the research ethics committee of Shahroud University of Medical Sciences (code: IR.SHMU.REC.1402.096). The project was registered in the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (registration code: IRCT20230913059423N1). Additionally, the authors adhered to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in publishing their findings.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
