Passi, Varun Raj
Warrier, Sreedevi
Balu, Rajalekshmi
Kumar, M. M. Sunil
Sharma, Parth
Article History
Received: 9 September 2024
Accepted: 31 January 2025
First Online: 21 February 2025
Declarations
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: The study was exempted from ethical review by the Internal Ethics Committee of Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences on 8th July 2024. The ethics approval number of the study is TIPS/IEC-1/2024Exm. The need for consent to participate was waived by the Institutional Review Board.
: Not applicable.
: The manuscript was prepared in compliance with STROBE guidelines.
: Parth Sharma is the founding editor of Nivarana.org, a public health information and advocacy platform and has received honorarium for articles published in The Harvard Public Health Magazine, Think Global Health, The Hindu and The Wire. Other authors declare no competing interests. There are no competing interests for other authors.