Goyal, Atul Kumar http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7391-4207
Bakshi, Jaimanti
Panda, Naresh K.
Kapoor, Rakesh
Vir, Dharam
Kumar, Krishan
Aneja, Pankaj
Singh, Balwinder
Gupta, Meenu
Walia, Sumittar Singh
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Medical Research (Award no. 3/13/JRF -2015/HRD)
Article History
Received: 18 February 2021
Accepted: 1 May 2021
First Online: 3 July 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
: Present study has been approved by the institute ethics committee (Letter No. INT/IEC/2019/002539 with Ref No. NK/5657/PhD). Permission form the copyrighted owner of English version of shame and stigma scale was obtained for translation of the instrument to Hindi language. Permission to use the Hindi version of VHI and EORTC-QLQ-HN35 scale was also obtained from the copyrighted owners. Translation agreement was signed by all the translators. Participant information sheet was provided to all participants, and written consent was taken from every participant.