Weerasinghe, Kalani http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9314-9714
Rishard, Mohamed http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0739-5661
Brabaharan, Subhani http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4865-3791
Walpita, Yasaswi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7608-4042
Article History
Received: 15 January 2023
Accepted: 1 October 2023
First Online: 13 October 2023
<!--Emphasis Type='Bold' removed-->Declarations
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: All procedures followed the Helsinki Declaration, and all participants provided written informed consent. The Ethics Review Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, approved the study on 20th of June 2019 under the application number UCP-AL-15-319. The study was registered in the Sri Lanka Clinical Trials Registry (managed by the Sri Lanka Medical Association) on 6th of September 2019, (registration number SLCTR/2019/029) under the application number APPL/2019/028.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.