Hegde, Srishti http://orcid.org/0009-0006-7403-3704
Quadros, Shalini http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6250-1730
Appaji, Rashmi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3579-9487
Acharya, Vinita A. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8705-0091
Funding for this research was provided by:
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
Article History
Received: 4 August 2023
Accepted: 8 June 2024
First Online: 4 July 2024
Declarations
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: Approval was obtained from the Institutional Ethics Committee for student research of Kasturba Medical College and Kasturba Hospital (IEC2: 171/2022). The procedures used in this study adhere to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.