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Article History

Received: 18 January 2024

Accepted: 20 February 2025

First Online: 27 February 2025

Declarations

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: The study is based on the secondary, identified publicly available survey data, and survey agencies that conducted the field survey for the data collection have also collected a prior consent from the respondents. The NFHS was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Institutions involved, and the datasets are available on individual registration at for broader use in social research. The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. They ruled that no formal ethical consent was required to conduct research from this data source.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.