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Article History

Received: 27 August 2024

Accepted: 2 March 2026

First Online: 14 March 2026

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Research Ethics Committee, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, Maharashtra, India (Approval Letter No.: REC/HSS/07/2024, dated 17 March 2023). The research was conducted in accordance with the ethical guidelines and regulations of the Research Ethics Committee and in compliance with applicable institutional and national standards for research involving human participants.

: Data were collected in Nagpur City, Maharashtra, India, between 23 January 2024 and 14 February 2024. At the beginning of the online questionnaire, participants were provided with a participant information statement explaining the purpose of the study, the voluntary nature of participation, and the confidentiality of responses. Informed consent was obtained electronically prior to participation through the Google Forms between 23 January 2024 and 14 February 2024, before participants began answering the survey questions, as they were informed that their participation was entirely voluntary, that they could decline to answer any question or discontinue participation at any time, and that their responses would be kept confidential. Proceeding with and submitting the completed questionnaire during the data collection period indicated their voluntary consent to participate. Any identifiable information collected was removed prior to analysis, and the dataset used for analysis was anonymized.