Jiang, Chunyu
Phoong, Seuk Wai
Moghavvemi, Sedigheh
Funding for this research was provided by:
Faculty of Business and Economics Postgraduate Special Research Grant, Universiti Malaya (GPKIT, UMG031I-2024, GPKIT, UMG031I-2024)
Article History
Received: 19 October 2024
Accepted: 29 May 2025
First Online: 19 June 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Name of the approval body (e.g., institutional review board (IRB) or national research ethics committee, or similar): Ethics committee of University of Malaya Confirmation that all research was performed in accordance with relevant guidelines/regulations applicable when human participants are involved (e.g. Declaration of Helsinki, or similar): The procedures used in this study adhere to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval number or ID: UM.TNC2/UMREC_2686. Date of Approval: 15 June 2023. Scope of approval: Non-Medical.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants. The date of the data collection is after received the ethics approval from which is from February to May 2024. All participants were provided with detailed written and verbal information about the purpose, scope, method, and possible risks of the study. They were assured that the information they provided would be kept confidential, their personal data would be protected, and the results of the research would only be reported anonymously. Participants were informed that they had the right to withdraw from the study at any time and were assured that their data would be destroyed in such a case.