Kumari, Rekha
Ghosh, Chirashree
Kumar, Ritesh
Shakya, Rashmi
Kumar, Shailender
Saini, Adesh K.
Funding for this research was provided by:
R&D cell, Miranda House, University of Delhi, India (project grant MH-32/2024)
Article History
Received: 26 September 2025
Accepted: 13 May 2026
First Online: 22 May 2026
Competing interests
: The authors have no conflict of interest.
: All the experimental protocols, especially the online survey questionnaire, were approved by the institutional review committee (IRC) under the R&D cell, Miranda House, University of Delhi, and an ethical waiver was given via reference no. MH-32/2024/IRC-3/10-02-2024.
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