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Venguidesvarane, Akila Govindarajan
Govindarajan Venguidesvarane, Akila https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4387-8564
Varadarajan, Samya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6396-5593
Rajamohan, Muthukumar https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4029-558X
Varadarajan, Saranya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7051-1143
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Received: 5 June 2026
Accepted: 4 September 2026
First Online: 13 September 2026
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Ethics approval consent to participate: Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Institutional Ethics Committee of Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research Chennai Tamil Nadu India reference number IEC-NI/20/OCT/76/94. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Participation was voluntary and all responses were anonymised.
Accordance statement: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) National Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical and Health Research Involving Human Participants (2017) and reported in accordance with the STROBE (Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology) guidelines.
Consent for publication: Not applicable. The manuscript contains no individual person’s identifiable data.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
