Rajan, Nikhil http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8982-473X
Saxena, Sunil Kumar
Parida, Pradipta Kumar
Alexander, Arun
Ganesan, Sivaraman
Funding for this research was provided by:
Jawaharlal Institute Of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIP/Res/Intra-MD-MS/01/2015-16, JIP/Res/Intra-MD-MS/phas1/grant2/01/2016-17)
Article History
Received: 15 May 2020
Accepted: 6 July 2020
First Online: 14 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors do not have any conflicts of interest/ competing interests to declare.
: Approval was obtained from the Institute Ethics Committee, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, (JIP/IEC/2015/16/599) for the conduct of this trial. The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional guidelines (Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research on Human Subjects, 2000- Indian Council of Medical Research) on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008.
: Written informed consent was obtained from the parents of all children included in this trial. Assent of children were obtained when they were >7 years.
: Written informed consent was obtained from the parents of all participants for publication of the data collected.