Saini, Jyoti
Bakshi, Jaimanti
Kumar, Kiran
Alrwuili, Adel Mohammad K.
Panda, Naresh K.
Sharma, Maryada
Vir, Dharam
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: 23 February 2024
Accepted: 31 May 2025
First Online: 14 June 2025
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: 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 form the copyrighted owner of Hindi version of EORTC-QLQ-HN35 and shame and stigma scale, was obtained.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.