Niksadat, Negin
Rakhshanderou, Sakineh
Negarandeh, Reza
Ramezankhani, Ali
Farahani, Ali Vasheghani
Ghaffari, Mohtasham http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6954-5995
Article History
Received: 22 March 2021
Accepted: 13 December 2021
First Online: 4 January 2022
Declarations
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: The Ethical Review Committee of the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences approved the study (Code: IR.SBMU.PHNS.REC.1395.34). In addition to this, we obtained permission from authorities in the hospitals. Also, informed consent was obtained from each participant before the actual data collection.The consent was verbally obtained as we thought the patients might otherwise feel uncomfortable. To fulfill that, the principal researcher introduced herself and the study’s objectives. The participants have ensured the confidentiality of their names and other information. They were also informed of their liberty to leave the interview at any stage. This was considered an acceptable consent procedure by the ethics committees both at institutional (Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences) and national level (Ministry of Health) for exceptional situations and was particularly confirmed for this study.
: Not Applicable” in this section.
: “The authors declare that they have no competing interests” in this section.