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Accepted: 7 June 2023

First Online: 22 June 2023

Declarations

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: No funding was required for the conduct of this systematic review and meta-analysis.

: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. Although an intellectual interest bias has informed the motivation for conducting this meta-analysis, with some of the authors having published extensively in this area and whose papers are included, these authors declare that this has not impacted the results.

: Ethics approval was granted by the Australian Catholic University Human Research Ethics Committee (2021-223N).

: The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available as they were provided by individual study authors after signed agreement. Data may be able to be provided upon request from the authors pending approval by the Australian Catholic University’s Human Research Ethics Committee.

: A letter of agreement, signed by the authors of the individual studies prior to data transfer, referred to our registered protocol in which the dissemination/publication plans were detailed.

: NF and AM were responsible for conceiving the idea for the review and meta-analysis and study selection. NF conducted data retrieval from individual authors and subsequent data consolidation. Statistical analysis was performed by NF and AG. The first draft of the manuscript was written by NF. All authors contributed to data interpretation and reviewing the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.