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Accepted: 8 August 2024

First Online: 25 August 2024

Declarations

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: No funding was obtained for this study. The salaries of authors were paid by their employer, the State Health Resource Centre, Chhattisgarh. The surveys were funded by the State Health Resource Centre, Chhattisgarh.

: Not applicable. The dataset was completely anonymised before analysis. The publication of this research does not involve any information identifiable to the study participants.

: The study was carried out with written informed consent of all respondents and legal representatives.

: The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of State Health Resource Centre, Chhattisgarh (Reference SHRC-2023-01). The study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the World Medical Association’s Helsinki Declaration in 1964 and its later amendments. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.

: The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author and State Health Resource Centre, Chhattisgarh on reasonable request.

: S.G. and N.T. contributed to the study design; K.B., N.T. and S.G. contributed to design of tools; K.B. and N.T. contributed to the data collection; K.B., S.G. and N.T. analysed the data; S.G. contributed to writing of the manuscript; V.R.K. reviewed the draft manuscript; all authors read, reviewed and approved the final manuscript.

: Not applicable.

: All the authors declare that there are no competing interests.