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Article History

Received: 12 December 2024

Accepted: 24 April 2025

First Online: 29 April 2025

Declarations

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: The study adhered to the Declaration of Helsinki for health science research with human participants. The University of Johannesburg Research Ethics Committee and Higher Degrees Committee (REC-1279-2021; HDC-01-154-2021) granted permission to conduct the study. Further approval was obtained from the National Department of Health to conduct the health science related research. Clinical trial number not applicable to this study. All the participants granted informed voluntary verbal and written consent. Codes were generated specifically for data collection to ensure anonymity among the participants.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.