Seneviratne, Shilanthi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6665-0183
Ginige, Samitha
Kularatna, Sanjeewa
Gunawardena, Nalika
Article History
Accepted: 2 October 2020
First Online: 9 November 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study was conducted after ethical approval from the Ethics Review Committee of the University of Colombo Faculty of Medicine Sri Lanka (EC-17-019). Ethical Review Committee of the University of Colombo Faculty of Medicine Sri Lanka is a national ethical review committees in the country. An Ethical Review Committee is not available in the chest clinic where this study was conducted, and therefore, ethical approval was obtained from one of the major national ethical review committees in the country. Thereafter, administrative clearance was taken from the Director of the National Programme for Tuberculosis Control and Chest Diseases (NPTCCD) and from the in-charge medical officer of the CCC to implement the study. The EuroQol authorizers granted permission to use the EQ-5D-3L questionnaire in this research study free of charge and the study was registered in their organization (ID: 12423).
: Informed written consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.