Funding for this research was provided by:
UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, University Grants Commission (F.15-1/2012-13/PDFWM-2012-13-OB-CHA-16486-(SA-II))
Article History
Received: 1 December 2020
Accepted: 4 August 2021
First Online: 28 August 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no financial, personal and competing interests.
: The present study was approved and reviewed by an accredited committee “Panjab University Institutional Ethics Committee (PUIEC), Chandigarh” [letter no: PUIEC/2014/127/1-A/29/09; dated: 15/10/2015]. It is verified here that written informed consents from participating subjects (volunteers) were obtained prior to conducting the present study. It is further certified here that the present study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments (comparable ethical standards). It is also stated here that publication of research data would be done while safeguarding the privacy and confidentiality of human participants as per the rules of PUIEC.