Veeresh, Veeresh
Hosapatna, Mamatha
Menon, Girish
Shekar, Mithun
Pruthi, Nupur
Kausar, Aamna
Funding for this research was provided by:
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
Article History
Received: 4 August 2025
Revised: 19 September 2025
Accepted: 30 September 2025
First Online: 13 October 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This systematic review and meta-analysis was registered on the Open Science Framework (OSF) before the commencement of the review. The registration can be accessed at [ ]. Although a protocol was prepared to guide the review process, it was not uploaded as a separate file to the OSF platform. Amendments to the registration were made during the review and documented within the OSF record. These amendments reflected refinements in eligibility criteria and synthesis methods, implemented during the data extraction and analysis stages to improve methodological clarity.