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Received: 17 April 2025

Accepted: 9 July 2025

First Online: 2 October 2025

Declarations

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: Ethics approval was obtained from the Office of Research Ethics and Integrity at the University of Melbourne in November 2023 (2023-27815-47508-3). All participants provided written informed consent to participate. This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical requirements of the Helsinki Declaration.

: All participants provided written informed consent to the publishing of results from their participation in the study.

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: This mixed-methods study uses a convergent parallel design. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analysed separately and then integrated (highlighting points of convergence and divergence) to produce the overall results. Questionnaires were analysed via descriptive statistics and participant interviews were reflexively thematically analysed; the questionnaire responses supplement the qualitative data. (N.B. Clinical Trial number not applicable.)