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Accepted: 10 February 2025

First Online: 2 March 2025

Declarations

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: No external funding was utilized for this research.

: Lorraine Danks, Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela, Regardt Gouws and Kennedy Otwombe have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article. Sam Salek and Stuart Walker are Editorial Board members of Pharmaceutical Medicine. Professors Salek and Walker were not involved in the selection of peer reviewers for the manuscript nor any of the subsequent editorial decisions.

: The study was approved by Health, Science, Engineering and Technology ECDA, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom [Reference Protocol number: LMS/PGR/UH/05160].

: All participants were contacted and provided written consent to participate in the study.

: Not applicable.

: The data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

: Lorraine Danks: Conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, writing – original draft, writing – review and editing. Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela: Conceptualization, writing – review and editing. Regardt Gouws: Conceptualization, writing – review and editing. Kennedy Otwombe: Formal analysis, writing – review and editing. Stuart Walker: Conceptualization, writing – original draft, writing – review and editing. Sam Salek: Conceptualization, writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing. All the authors have read and approved the final submitted manuscript, and have agreed to be accountable for the work.