Khoshnoodifar, Mehrnoosh
Emadi, Navaz
Mosalanejad, Leili
Maghsoodzadeh, Sara
Shokrpour, Nasrin
Article History
Received: 27 December 2022
Accepted: 23 October 2023
First Online: 4 January 2024
Declarations
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: This present study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (IR.SBMU.SME.REC.1399.007). We obtained permission from relevant units, ensuring the confidentiality of questionnaire information. Informed consent was obtained from all subjects and/or their legal guardian(s). Assuring participants about the confidentiality of their names, publishing results anonymously, and allowing them to withdraw from the study at any time were ethical considerations of this study. This study followed the Principles of the Helsinki Declaration related to medical research on human beings.
: Ensuring the confidentiality of participants' information and respecting their right to withdraw from the study are important ethical considerations in medical research involving human subjects. The Helsinki Declaration provides an internationally recognized ethical framework for medical research involving human subjects, and the present study has taken appropriate measures to adhere to these ethical principles.
: The authors declare no competing interests.