Saif, Ashi
Khan, Zainab
Naqvi, Irshad Hussain
Parveen, Shama
Samad, Abdus
Parveen, Adila https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9952-6322
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Education, Government of India (Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) (Scheme code- 3268))
Article History
Received: 30 January 2024
Accepted: 6 January 2025
First Online: 13 February 2025
Declarations
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: A. Saif, Z. Khan, I.H. Naqvi, S. Parveen, A. Samad and A. Parveen declare that they have no competing interests.
: The study’s design and protocol received approval from the university’s Institutional Ethics Committee (Proposal Number: 1/9/348/JMI/IEC/2021) and registration was done prospectively in the Clinical Trial Registry, India (CTRI No.: CTRI/2021/09/036585). The study’s objectives, methodologies, and associated risks were thoroughly communicated to the participants, who provided informed consent acknowledging their rights in this research. The protocols conformed to the ethical standards set forth in the Declaration of Helsinki (1964) and its subsequent amendments.