Subramaniam, Sudharshini
Somasundaram, Anavarathan
E, Cowshik
J, Judson Neslin
K.N, Ponnien Selvan
Banu, Jannath Hameeda
Banumathi, Getrude
Selvarajan, Suganthi
Chandrasekaran, Sabitha Devi
Cynthia, Sharon
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Funding for this research was provided by:
State Planning Commission
Article History
Received: 15 June 2025
Accepted: 3 October 2025
First Online: 15 December 2025
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Tamil Nadu, India. 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 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: This manuscript does not contain any individual person’s data in any form (including individual details, images, or videos). Therefore, consent to publish is not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.