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Article History

Received: 28 February 2022

Accepted: 26 October 2022

First Online: 11 November 2022

Declarations

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: This study was approved in Kashan University of Medical Sciences with the ethics code of IR.KAUMS.NUHEPM.REC.1399.055 and its protocol was registered and approved in the Iranian Registration of Clinical Trial (IRCT) with the code of IRCT20201015049037N1. In all stages of conducting research on patients, the neurologist will continuously monitor the method of conducting the study. All usual care, which is performed for patients in the control group, will also be performed for patients in the intervention group, based on the opinion of neurologists. Implicit and verbal informed consent will be obtained from all patients by one of the researchers and all patients will have the right for informed and free consent to participate in the study. There will be no biological specimens in this study. Patients' identities will not be disclosed and data will be provided anonymously to others, if necessary. Written informed consent will not be obtained due to the possibility of unnecessary sensitivities in patients. If a patient decides to stop the intervention in the middle of the research, the researchers will consider themselves obliged to respect this request and without changing the treatment, they will exclude the patient from the study and replace this individual with another patient with similar conditions. Doing this research will not harm the environment or vulnerable groups. Researchers will be committed to the principle of privacy and confidentiality and no identity information about patients will be disclosed in the results of the study. Researchers will be obliged to publish the results of the research honestly, accurately and completely and to provide it to research participants and other stakeholders. The method of conducting this study will not contradict any social, cultural and religious values. Expected recruitment start date is April 2022. Results of this study have not already been published or submitted to any journal.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.