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Authors
Hewavithana, Padma Badra
Wettasinghe, Mihiri Chami https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9183-2395
Hettiarachchi, Gothami
Ratnayaka, Manel
Suraweera, Hilary
Wickramasinghe, Nuwan Darshana
Kumarasiri, Pallegoda Vithanage Ranjith
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Financial assistance of this study was obtained from the Research grant, University of Peradeniya.
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Article History
Received: 1 March 2023
Revised: 26 May 2023
Accepted: 28 May 2023
First Online: 2 June 2023
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. Ethical approval to conduct the study was obtained from the Ethic Review Committee, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya (2015/EC/23). The study was registered in the Clinical Trials Registry of Sri Lanka prior to commencement (SLCTR/2015/016).
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
