Adu, Peter https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1931-147X
Popoola, Tosin https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2761-7783
Bartholomew, Emerson https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0735-0436
Iqbal, Naved https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5558-8938
Medvedev, Oleg N. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0529-9764
Simpson, Colin R. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5194-8083
Funding for this research was provided by:
Victoria University of Wellington
Article History
Accepted: 28 April 2025
First Online: 23 May 2025
Declarations
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: The authors'institutional Human Research Ethics Committee approved the study (#0000029770). The study was in line with the Declaration of Helsinki, which outlines fundamental ethical principles for health research involving the use of human participants (World Medical Association, ). The study followed the standardized checklist for reporting cross-sectional studies (Vandenbroucke et al., ). Participants freely gave informed consent to participate in this study and for their results to be published or used for other academic purposes such as reports, presentations, and public documentation in aggregate form (i.e., a combined data analysed with those of others).
: The authors declare no competing interests.