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Juliet, Hepsipa Omega
Davis, Syjo
Kantipudi, Suvarna Jyothi
M., Aishwarya
Elizabeth, Giftlin
Ganesan, Jayashree
Gnana Subramani, Kasthuri Divya
Subramanian, Karthick
Suresh, Krithika
Venkatraman, Lakshmi
Varadharajan, Natarajan
Ganesh, Ragul
Vasu, Ramya
Asaithambi, Rudhra
Menon, Vikas
Rajkumar, Vijayashree
Ramachandran, Padmavati
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Article History
Received: 21 December 2025
Accepted: 15 June 2026
First Online: 1 August 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This RCT study has been approved by each study site’s Ethics Committee. Informed consent will be obtained from all participants at each study site. SCARF–Ethics Committee, registered under the Department of Health Research (DHR) bearing registration no: EC/NEW/INST/2023/TN/0329.SRIHER–Ethics committee registered under DHR IEC/NEW/INST/2023/TN/0293.JIPMER–Ethics committee registered under DHR ECR/342/INST/PY/2013/RR-19.MGMCRI–Ethics committee registered under DHR EC/NEW/INST/2022/PY/0169.
Consent for publication: Not applicable—no identifying images or other personal or clinical details of participants are presented here or will be presented in reports of the trail results.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
