Khubchandani, Jasmine
Soni, Apurv http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5049-3657
Fahey, Nisha
Raithatha, Nitin
Prabhakaran, Anusha
Byatt, Nancy
Moore Simas, Tiffany A.
Phatak, Ajay
Rosal, Milagros
Nimbalkar, Somashekhar
Allison, Jeroan J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Massachusetts Medical School (2013 Office of Global Health Pilot Project)
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (TL1-TR001454, KL2TR000160)
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (P60-MD006912-05, P60-MD006912-05)
Joy McCann Endowment
Article History
Received: 9 February 2017
Accepted: 6 October 2017
First Online: 15 October 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Consent for participation was obtained by trained interviewers prior to enrollment. Interviewers read the consent to participants in Gujarati, shared a single-page fact sheet about the study with them, and answered questions. Willing participants were asked to sign a separate consent form, and a copy of the form was provided to the participants. Human Research Ethics Committee of HM Patel Center for Medical Care and Education at SKH reviewed the study and approved it. University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) Institutional Review Board reviewed the study and exempted it because of the approval by a local ethics committee in India and the absence of interaction of UMMS researchers with study participants or their identified data. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.