Borji-Navan, Sanam http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4785-9333
Mohammad-Alizadeh-Charandabi, Sakineh http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6948-2077
Esmaeilpour, Khalil http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8360-4309
Mirghafourvand, Mojgan
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (62582, 2019)
Article History
Received: 4 February 2022
Accepted: 28 September 2022
First Online: 12 October 2022
Declarations
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: The Ethics Committee of the Tabriz University of Medical Sciences approved our study protocol with the ethics code of IR.TBZMED.REC.1398.014. We followed all the ethical principles of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki for medical research involving human subjects. We obtained written informed consent from all study participants before their recruitment. Participants were ensured that their individual data will be processed in accordance with Iran’s data protection laws, which ensure their confidentiality. Also, they were aware that all deidentified individual participant data collected in this study could be shared through public databases.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.