Kaviprawin, Mogan
Ramalingam, Archana
Varghese, Anu
Vashishtha, Arun
Parihar, Dogendra Singh
Singla, Inderjit
Mitra, Jhilam
Johal, Karanpreet Kaur
Nimsatkar, Madhuri Birbal
Mahadik, Mrunal Madhukar
Mohd, Muneer
Shukla, Pranay
Gupta, Rahul
N, Rajendran
Oommen, Robin C
Bharadwaj, Rupali
Gill, Sandeep Singh
KN, Satish
Chandrakar, Shrikant Kumar
Dhunna, Vazinder Kaur
Tadas, Sachin
Parasuraman, Ganeshkumar
Murali, Sharan
Nagarajan, Ramya
Sakthivel, Manikandanesan
Sailesh, Kalyani
Ramamurthy, Srinath
Gollapalli, PavanKumar
Azarudeen, Mohamed Jainul
Raju, Mohankumar
Yedhu, S
Ramasamy, Aarthy
Bicholkar, Abhishek
Kaur, Prabhdeep
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Epidemiology (1098)
Article History
Received: 5 December 2024
Accepted: 11 March 2025
First Online: 21 March 2025
Declarations
:
: We obtained ethical approval from the institutional ethics committee of the ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai (Ethics approved ID: NIE/IHEC/A/202201–04). We obtained administrative permission from state and district-level stakeholders to conduct the study. Informed consent was obtained from the staff nurse and medical officers for observation and interview. We abstracted the deidentified data from the OPD and NCD registers of the eligible individuals who attended OPD. Our study was conducted in compliance with the ethical principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki, as well as applicable national guidelines, ensuring the protection of participants' rights, safety, and well-being.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.