Kakian, Farshad
Mirzaei, Esmaeil
Moattari, Afagh
Takallu, Sara
Bazargani, Abdollah http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6430-0596
Article History
Received: 13 October 2022
Accepted: 18 June 2023
First Online: 29 January 2024
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (Ethics code: <i>IR.SUMS.REC.1400.803)</i>. All the participants signed the informed consent. For people under 16 years of age, informed consent was obtained from their parents or legal guardians. We followed all the ethical principles of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki for medical research involving human subjects. Participants were ensured that their data will be processed by Iran’s data protection laws, which ensure their confidentiality.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.