Saini, Jyoti
Bakshi, Jaimanti
Panda, Naresh K.
Sharma, Maryada
Vir, Dharam
Alnemare, Ahmad K.
Mahfoz, Turki Bin
Goyal, Atul Kumar https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7391-4207
Funding for this research was provided by:
PGIMER (A30011/Ph.D./1Trg/July2019)
ICMR (3/13/JRF-2015/HRD)
Article History
Received: 13 March 2024
Accepted: 26 March 2025
First Online: 26 May 2025
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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 (IEC) of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India, with the Letter No. INT/IEC/2019/002539 with Ref No. NK/5657/PhD. Permission from the copyrighted owner of Hindi version of EORTC-QLQ-HN35 and shame and stigma scale was obtained.
: No individual data of patients including in any form including individual details, images or videos were incorporated in manuscript. Participant information sheet was provided to all participants, and written consent was taken from every participant. All authors have provided the consent for publication.