M C, Athira
Alam, Iftekhar
Article History
Received: 31 July 2025
Accepted: 20 May 2026
First Online: 3 June 2026
Declarations
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: The permission for data collection and research was granted by the Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC), Pondicherry University (Approval No. HEC/PU/2023/04/03-07-2023), and the Directorate of WCD in Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
: The authors declare no competing interests.