Gharacheh, Maryam
Kalan, Mohammad Ebrahimi
Khalili, Narjes
Ranjbar, Fahimeh
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Medical Research Development (993742)
Article History
Received: 15 October 2022
Accepted: 16 May 2023
First Online: 24 May 2023
Declarations
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: Ethics approval for the research project was obtained from the ethics committee of the National Institute for Medical Research Development (Code: IR.NIMAD.REC.1399.076). All methods were performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Since we only used the women’s healthcare records and were not in touch with any women, it was not possible for us to obtain informed consent from the subjects. The ethics committee of the National Institute for Medical Research Development (NIMAD) granted an exemption from requiring informed consent. In order to access the women’s data, the permission was obtained from the hospital’s authorities. To ensure confidentiality, no participant was recorded by name. The results were only reported in groups.Since we only used the women’s healthcare records and were not in touch with any women, it was not possible for us to obtain informed consent from the subjects.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no financial and non-financial competing interests.