Gopalakrishnan, Lakshmi https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3226-9090
Patil, Sumeet
Das, Debangana
Paul, Anshuman
Sharma, Payal
Kachhwaha, Ankur
Choudhary, Usha
Diamond-Smith, Nadia
Funding for this research was provided by:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1R01HD108252-01)
Article History
Received: 12 April 2024
Accepted: 7 October 2025
First Online: 15 November 2025
Declarations
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: Study protocols were reviewed and approved by institutional review boards at the University of California, San Francisco (IRB number: 22–37173), and the India-based Center for Media Studies (IRB00006230). The study is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT06320964). Registered retrospectively on 13 March 2024, . The procedures for obtaining verbal audio-recorded informed consent from participants before data collection were approved by both the institutional review boards at the University of California, San Francisco and the India-based Center for Media Studies. Verbal audio-recorded informed consent was obtained from the participants prior to data collection. All methods were carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.