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Article History

Received: 12 August 2025

Accepted: 3 December 2025

First Online: 11 December 2025

Declarations

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: The Ethics Committee of Kuwait University’s Health Sciences Center approved this cross-sectional study (reference number: 304, approval date: 21/05/2013). A written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to their inclusion in the study. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the Declaration of Helsinki, as revised in the most recent amendment available at the time of the study (2013).

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.