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Soodi, Omid
Abdollahiasl, Akbar
Amini, Shahideh
Hesari, Elahe
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Article History
Received: 5 December 2023
Accepted: 4 February 2025
First Online: 17 February 2025
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: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (IR.TUMS.TIPS.REC.1398.063). The foremost ethical consideration was to ensure that potential participants were informed that their participation was voluntary and that their decision to participate or not would have no bearing on their treatment. A second ethical consideration was the protection of participants’ personal information. To this end, names and other identifying information were not recorded in the questionnaire, and numerical codes were used in place of participants’ names.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
