Statistical Analysis
SPSS statistical software version 29.0 (IBM) was used for data analysis. The demographic characteristics and baseline outcome measures were summarized by frequency, percentage, mean (SD), and range. Normal Q-Q plots of skewness and kurtosis of data were used to assess continuous variables’ normality. Normality was further evaluated by using the Shapiro-Wilk test to determine the skewness and kurtosis of the data sets. The χ