Indrakanti, Prathyusha
Mundkur, Anjali https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4389-3676
Poojari, Vidyashree G.
Adiga, Prashanth
Tiwari, Shivangi
Kumar, Pratap
Funding for this research was provided by:
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
Article History
Received: 27 June 2025
Accepted: 27 January 2026
First Online: 6 February 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interest.
: Ethical approval was granted by the Kasturba Medical College and Kasturba Hospital Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC 1:329/2022), and this study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki.