Das, Priya http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5552-8986
Saha, Subhadeep http://orcid.org/0009-0006-9020-2440
Das, Tanu http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1781-1400
Das, Partha http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9474-7225
Roy, Tamal Basu http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3256-8904
Article History
Received: 21 November 2023
Accepted: 22 February 2024
First Online: 4 March 2024
Declarations
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: The ethical approval of the NFHS-5 (2019–2021) was obtained from the ethics review board of the International Institute for Population Science (IIPS), Mumbai. The survey was also reviewed and approved by the ICF and International Review Board (IRB). For participation in this survey, informed written and verbal consent was obtained from the participants at the time of the survey. Each participant’s approval was sought, and after that, the interview was conducted. The study involved secondary analysis of publicly available data. Thus independent ethical approval was not needed. However, the corresponding author received permission from ExternalRef removed to use the data for analysis.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interest.