C, Surekha K https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1005-2579
Kini, Pradeep G https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4776-8944
Hariharan, Arun Natarajan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3963-2035
Funding for this research was provided by:
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
Article History
Received: 31 March 2026
Accepted: 21 July 2026
First Online: 17 September 2026
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Ethics approval and consent to participate: Not applicable. This study is a scoping review based exclusively on published literature and did not involve human participants, animals, or primary data collection. Therefore, ethical approval was not required.
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Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.