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Article History

Received: 12 March 2025

Accepted: 1 June 2025

First Online: 16 June 2025

Declarations

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: The Research Ethics Committee and the Scientific Research Committee of the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, have approved the study protocol (Code: MD-402–2021). The treatment of all participants was not affected by their right to disengage from the study at any time. Access to patient data was restricted to the principal investigator and coinvestigator, and it was securely stored and coded.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.