Ramachandrayya, Shivashankara A.
D’Cunha, Prema
Rebeiro, Cleeta
Funding for this research was provided by:
FATHER MULLER RESEARCH CENTRE, MANGALORE (FMRC/FMMC/ST/001/18-19)
FATHER MULLER RESEARCH CENTRE (FMRC/FMMC/ST/001/18-19)
Article History
Received: 18 August 2020
Accepted: 21 October 2020
First Online: 27 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: Nil
: Approval of Institutional Ethics Committee was obtained (FMMCIEC/CCM/214/2018, dated 18.04.2018).
: Voluntary, informed consent was obtained from the study participants. Ethical principles as per Declaration of Helsinki and the guidelines of ICMR, 2017 (national guidelines on conduct of biomedical and health research involving human participants) were followed.
: In the informed consent from participants, provision was kept for consenting for publication of the study data.
: Not applicable.