Mahmoudi, Fatemeh
Ashoorkhani, Mahnaz
Saniee, Nadia
Razavi, Narjes
Mosadeghrad, Ali Mohammad
Garmaroudi, Gholamreza
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services (64211)
Article History
Received: 14 October 2025
Accepted: 27 May 2026
First Online: 10 June 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study is a scoping review of previously published literature and did not involve human participants or animal subjects. The consent to participate in the research was not applicable for this study. The review was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki (2013 revision) and the PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews) guidelines. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (code number: IR.TUMS.SPH.REC.1401.258).
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.