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1 Dpartment of Health Education and Health Promotion, Zahedan University Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
2 Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
3 Clinical Immunology Research Center, ELT Department, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
4 Khash Health High Education Complex, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
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Acknowledgments: We are grateful to the colleagues for their valuable contributions to the data collection process. We also thank all the participants in our study.
Availability of data and materials: All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this article. Also, data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the ethics committee at Zahedan University of Medical Sciences (Ethics Code: IR.ZAUMS.REC.1400.239).All participants provided written informed consent.
Funding: No financial support was received for this study.
Authors' contributions: Hossein Izadirad: preparing and writing-original draft. Hossein Rashki Ghaleno, Hananeh Rafati and Elnaz Nadimi: planning the methodology, and analyses. Alireza Ateshpanjeh: reviewing and editing and visualizing. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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