Garg, Priyanka
Krishnamoorthy, Yuvaraj
Halder, Pritam https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2407-6807
Rajaa, Sathish
Verma, Madhur https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1787-8392
Kankaria, Ankita
Goel, Anil
Kakkar, Rakesh
Article History
Received: 1 September 2024
Accepted: 3 January 2025
First Online: 11 January 2025
Declarations
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: The NFHS-5 received ethical approval from the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai (2019–21). It was also reviewed by the ICF International Review Board (IRB), which approved it ethically. After receiving complete information about the goal and methodology of the survey, the respondents signed to confirm their agreement. Interviews were conducted only after receiving each participant's informed consent. Being an anonymous dataset, it is publicly available on the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Programme website that cannot be used to identify survey respondents- ().
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.