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Authors
Muruganantham, Palanivelan
T S, Veeragoudhaman
Ubaithullah, Aabitha Banu https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4134-9938
Jayaraman, Niveditha
Sethuraman, Sivaranjani
Arasu, Vinitha
Ravichandran, Hariharasudhan
Janakiraman, Balamurugan
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Funding for this research was provided by:
SRM Institute of Science & Technology
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Article History
Received: 20 March 2026
Accepted: 18 June 2026
First Online: 3 July 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: All our procedures have been performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. The SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Institutional Ethical Committee, Kattankulathur, India, approved this study (ref. no. SRM IEC-ST0125-2054). The signed agreement was obtained after delivering a verbal account describing the study from the participants and attesting to informed consent with an impartial witness for study participation if the respondent had no formal schooling or was illiterate. Furthermore, the privacy and confidentiality of information were ensured.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
