Khazaee-Pool, Maryam http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2587-3460
Jahangiry, Leila
Pashaei, Tahereh
Ramezani-badr, Farhad
Nadrian, Haidar
Ponnet, Koen
Article History
Received: 14 August 2018
Accepted: 17 October 2018
First Online: 29 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study procedure was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Zanjan University of Medical Sciences [Grant number: A-12-1081-12]. This study involved only participants who gave their informed consent. For this, verbal informed consent was obtained from all participants before beginning the study, and all participants completed informed written consent after being informed about the purposes of the project. The METH-DBS was administered with the participants’ remaining anonymous there was no private information that could relate the answers to any of the participants in the current study. To protect the rights and interests of all participants, no records of consent by name were maintained. Each completed scale was given to the investigator on the same day of data gathering.
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