Goyal, Atul Kumar http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7391-4207
Bakshi, Jaimanti
Panda, Naresh K
Kapoor, Rakesh
Vir, Dharam
Kumar, Krishan
Aneja, Pankaj
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Medical Research (Award no. 3/13/JRF -2015/HRD)
Article History
Received: 10 October 2021
Accepted: 7 December 2022
First Online: 20 December 2022
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: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
: Present study has been approved by the institute ethics committee (Letter No. INT/IEC/2019/002539 with Ref No. NK/5657/PhD).
: Participant information sheet was provided to all participants and written consent was taken from every participant.
: Authorship consent form has been signed by all the authors. Permission form the copyrighted owner of Hindi version of shame and stigma scale, was obtained.