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Chauhan, Shekhar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6926-7649
Kumar, Shubham https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0421-5677
Patel, Ratna https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5371-7369
Simon, David Jean
Kumari, Aradhana https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7811-6877
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Article History
Received: 17 December 2021
Accepted: 26 September 2022
First Online: 10 October 2022
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: The authors were not involved in data collection process and therefore they did not require any ethical approval or consent to participate. However, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) extended the necessary ethical guidelines and clearance to undertake the survey. The LASI data is secondary in nature. The data is freely available on request and survey agencies that conducted the field survey for the data collection have collected a prior consent from the respondent. The survey agencies that collected data followed all the protocols. To maximize the cooperation of the sampled HHs and individuals, participants were provided with information brochures explaining the purpose of the survey, ways of protecting their privacy, and the safety of the health assessments as part of the ethics protocols. As per ethics protocols, consent forms were administered to each HH and age-eligible individual. All the methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
