Mondal, Sourav https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3869-6993
Anand, Abhishek https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6582-7215
Awasthi, Niharika https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2746-4617
Singh, Bharti https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4605-1634
Pradhan, Manas Ranjan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7011-894X
Article History
Received: 20 February 2023
Accepted: 14 September 2023
First Online: 19 September 2023
Declarations
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: The study is based on the publicly available data source, and survey agencies that conducted the field survey for the data collection have also collected a prior consent from the respondent. The NFHS-5 was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Institutions involved, and the datasets are available at for broader use in social research. The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. They ruled that no formal ethical consent was required to conduct research from this data source.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.