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Article History

Received: 31 December 2023

Accepted: 28 January 2025

First Online: 15 February 2025

Declarations

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: The ethical approval was granted from the Research Ethics Committee “REC” of King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSHRC) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Ref# 2191278. The REC waived the requirements of signed informed consent. The survey is anonymous and didn’t include any identifiers for the participant or the institution. Another approval was sought from National Committee of Bioethics (NCBE), the regulatory body of all IRBs in Saudi Arabia and they considered as decision-makers in this issue. Authors reporting experiments on humans and/or the use of human tissue samples confirmed that all experiments were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. All communications were conducted through official e-mails and saved for auditing purposes. KFSHRC Ethics Committee has reviewed and ethically cleared the final study results. The data were kept confidential with the research team following the Office of Research Affairs (ORA) regulations in KFSH&RC.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.