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Accepted: 26 April 2023

First Online: 13 May 2023

Declarations

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: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

: Abdulrahman Kalash, Aly Abdelrahman, Ibrahim Al-Zakwani, and Yousuf Al Suleimani have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.

: Ethics approval was obtained from the Medical Research Ethics Committee at Sultan Qaboos University before conducting the study (ref. no. SQU-EC/ 091/2022. MREC #2739). The study was also performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

: As personal identification information was masked prior to the analysis, informed consent was not sought.

: Not applicable.

: The authors confirm that the data supporting the findings of this study are available upon request.

: Not applicable.

: Conceptualization: all; data curation: IA-Z, AA, YAS; formal analysis: AK, IA-Z; investigation: AK; methodology: all; project administration: all; supervision: YAS, AA; validation: IA-Z, AA, YAS; writing, original draft: AK; writing, review and editing: YAS, AA, IA-Z. All authors read and approved the final version.