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"Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"This study was supported by Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, South Khorasan province, Iran (Grant number: 5385). We would like to express our special thanks to the individuals who willingly participated in the study and gave us the opportunity to generate new knowledge about this issue. Hamid Abbaszadeh: Conceptualization, Resources, Methodology, Project administration, Funding acquisition. Fariba Mohammadi: Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Visualization. Mahdieh Rajabi-Moghaddam: Investigation, Resources. Hamid Kabiri-Rad: Formal analysis, Writing – original draft. Shokouh Ghafari: Investigation, Resources. Farshid Abedi: Investigation, Resources. Ebrahim Miri-Moghaddam: Conceptualization, Validation, Resources, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing, Visualization, Supervision, Project administration."