Naik, Nithesh http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0356-7697
Ibrahim, Sufyan
Sircar, Sumedha
Patil, Vathsala http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8656-8080
Hameed, Belthangady Monu Zeeshan
Rai, Bhavan Prasad http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6323-7246
Chłosta, Piotr
Somani, Bhaskar K. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6248-6478
Funding for this research was provided by:
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
Article History
Received: 24 June 2021
Accepted: 28 July 2021
First Online: 16 August 2021
Declarations
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: This research was conducted with permission from the Institutional Ethics Committee (Registration Number 612/2020) – Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: All outpatients provided informed consent to participate in the survey and use their data for scientific purposes.
: All authors consent to the publication of this manuscript and are aware of its submission.
: The authors declare no competing interests.