Goyal, Atul Kumar https://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: 19 July 2021
Accepted: 29 April 2023
First Online: 14 May 2023
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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.
: 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.
: The present study has been approved by the institute ethics committee (Letter No. INT/IEC/2019/002539 with Ref No. NK/5657/PhD). Permission form the copyrighted owner of Hindi version of shame and stigma scale was obtained. Participant information sheet was provided to all participants, and written consent was taken from every participant.