Okati-Aliabad, Hassan
Hosseini, Esmat-Sadat
Sharifabad, Mohammad Ali Morowati
Mohammadi, Mahdi
Ardakani, Mohamad Ebrahimzadeh
Talebrouhi, Amir Hossein
Article History
Received: 5 April 2023
Accepted: 1 March 2024
First Online: 7 March 2024
Declarations
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: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The Ethics Committee of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences approved the study protocol (approval numbers: IR.SSU.SPH.REC.1399.135). Given that data collection occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, verbal informed consent was obtained from all parents. The informed consent form was distributed to parents via the WhatsApp platform. In the case of illiterate parents, students read the informed consent form to them, and parental consent was obtained through a phone call. The Ethics Committee of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences approved these informed consents. The original language version of the parents' informed consent form has been published in the study protocol article [CitationRef removed].
: Written informed consent was obtained from the boy depicted in Fig. InternalRef removed and his parents to include the photos in the publication.
: The authors declare no competing interests.