Arasu, Kanimolli http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3249-9857
Chang, Chung Yuan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1851-9110
Wong, Soon Yee http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5916-4910
Ong, Shu Hwa http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3364-0111
Yang, Wai Yew http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6829-8526
Chong, Megan Hueh Zan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5176-843X
Mavinkurve, Meenal http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7966-3664
Khoo, Erwin Jiayuan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7498-2954
Chinna, Karuthan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5449-2341
Weaver, Connie M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5450-9609
Chee, Winnie Siew Swee http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3424-3943
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tate&Lyle PLC UK
Article History
Received: 16 October 2022
Accepted: 13 February 2023
First Online: 21 February 2023
Declarations
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: The study has been approved by the Research and Ethics Committee of the International Medical University (IMU R/2016), and the trial was registered in clinicaltrials.gov (NCT03864172). The study was approved to be conducted in schools by the Ministry of Education, Malaysia (KPMSP.600–3/2/3). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: None.
: The sponsors of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis and interpretation. All authors had full access to all the data and are collectively responsible for the decision to submit for publication.