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Authors
Saadati, Hassan
Baradaran, Hamid Reza
Danaei, Goodarz
Ostovar, Afshin
Hadaegh, Farzad
Janani, Leila
Steyerberg, Ewout W.
Khalili, Davood http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4956-1039
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Iran University of Medical Sciences (964114)
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Article History
Received: 10 July 2020
Accepted: 25 October 2020
First Online: 4 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval for this study was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the Iran University of Medical Sciences (IR.IUMS.REC.1397.1073). Because the study did not involve any physical or laboratory examination, biological sampling and any respondents’ identifiers, only oral consent was obtained from each participant after they were informed about the study’s purpose and procedure, and as well as the confidentiality of data. The ethics committee approved this procedure.
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: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest in this study.
