Table 1.
Study timeline; we predicted 20 months to carry out the present study
| Description of research activity | Duration (month) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | |
| Reviewing the literature and writing the proposal | * | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preparing the total anthocyanin-base standardized (Cornus mas L.) fruit extract and the placebo | * | * | * | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Standardizing the extract based on the total anthocyanin | * | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Selecting the participants | * | * | * | * | * | * | ||||||||||||||||||
| Collecting data, conducting the intervention and assessments | * | * | * | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Entering the data into SPSS and conducting the statistical analysis | * | * | * | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Providing the final reports | * | * | * | |||||||||||||||||||||
The symbol * represents the start and end time of each research activity in study timeline