Joukar, Farahnaz http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8432-8879
Asgharnezhad, Mehrnaz http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0409-3852
Naghipour, Mohammadreza http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9142-1147
Mojtahedi, Kourosh http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6755-3027
Salari, Arsalan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5821-6176
Mansour-Ghanaei, Alireza http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8260-0506
Mansour-Ghanaei, Fariborz http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6264-0025
Article History
Received: 15 June 2022
Accepted: 11 November 2022
First Online: 8 December 2022
Declarations
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: This study was registered in the Research Department of Guilan University of Medical Sciences with the ethics code of IR.GUMS.REC.1397.129. The regional Ethics Committee (Guilan University of Medical Sciences) approved the study protocol and written informed consent was obtained from each participant and all methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Written Informed consent was obtained from all individual adult participants included in this study. The consent form for illiterate people was read by their first degree relatives and in the absence of the first family, theĀ form was read by one of their trusted people. Also it was taken as a confirmation of the fingerprints of these people.
: Not applicable.
: None.