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Authors
Rajalakshmi, Elumalai
Sasidharan, Akhil
Bagepally, Bhavani Shankara
Kumar, Muthusamy Santhosh
Manickam, Ponnaiah
Selva Vinayagam, T. S.
Sampath, P.
Parthipan, K
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Dept. of Health Research Govt. of India funds the HTARC, ICMR-NIE (Grant no: T.11011/08/2017-HR(Part-1)/E-office -8025571 dated 27th Nov-2019., Grant no: T.11011/08/2017-HR(Part-1)/E-office -8025571 dated 27th Nov-2019., Grant no: T.11011/08/2017-HR(Part-1)/E-office -8025571 dated 27th Nov-2019.)
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Article History
Received: 9 September 2022
Accepted: 22 December 2022
First Online: 6 January 2023
Declarations
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: The current study has been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Ethics approval was obtained from the Institutional Human Ethics Committee of Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of epidemiology (NIE/IHEC/202107–04), Chennai. As per the National guidelines for ethics committees reviewing biomedical and health research during COVID-19 pandemic by the Indian Council of Medical Research (April 2020), if written consent is not possible (COVID-19 patients), consent could be given orally/ use electronic methods to document and record. In the current study, we conducted telephonic survey targeting adults affected by COVID-19. Hence, oral/verbal consent was obtained and recorded before the start of each telephonic interview. All methods were carried out in accordance with the ICMR-ethical guidelines and were approved by ICMR-NIE Institutional Human Ethics committee.
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: The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.
