Rai, Santosh https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7750-7147
Tiku, Anika https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4341-0103
Menon, Anjali https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2394-5701
Seth, Divya https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6519-1360
Bajaj, Gagan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7551-7889
Funding for this research was provided by:
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
Article History
Received: 13 May 2025
Accepted: 10 September 2025
First Online: 18 October 2025
Declarations
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: The study received approval from the Institutional Ethical Committee (IEC) (IEC KMC MLR 07/2022/286) in compliance with the ethical guidelines for human research set forth in the Second Declaration of Helsinki.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.