Ambika, Pagadalu Lokababu
Basu, Debdatta
Nair, Sukesh Chandran
Kar, Rakhee http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6041-1512
Funding for this research was provided by:
Jawaharlal Institute Of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIP/Res/Intra-PhD/01/2015-16, JIP/Res/ Intra-PhD/phs1/ 01/2016-17, JIP/Res/ Intramural/phs1/2017-18)
Article History
Received: 24 September 2020
Accepted: 29 March 2021
First Online: 15 April 2021
Declarations
:
: Authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was approved by the Institute Ethics Committee (JIP/IEC/2015/13/540 dated 23.04.15).
: This study was conducted on patients who were enrolled in routine diagnostic care who were administered a questionnaire prior to their routine sampling. Healthy volunteers were administered the questionnaire. All were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Institute ethics committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed written consent was obtained from the adult patients and from the parent or legal guardian for pediatric patients enrolled in the study according to Institute ethical guidelines.