Jana, Arup
Saha, Unnati Rani
Reshmi, R. S.
Muhammad, T.
Article History
Received: 25 June 2022
Accepted: 7 February 2023
First Online: 21 February 2023
Declarations
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: The organization committee of the survey received ethical approval from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) of India for collecting the human data. The Indian Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) is known as National Family Health Survey (NFHS) in India. We used published large scale national data where every respondent was anonymized in the data set itself. As it is not based on a primary survey- cases, we need not to do any anonymization in the study as the data is already made in that fashion following all ethical protocols. Thereby, it is certified that all applicable institutional and governmental regulations concerning the ethical use of human volunteers were followed during the course of the survey. Also, verbal as well as written informed consent was obtained from all the participants. The informed consent was taken from their parent or legal guardian who were not mature or below 18 aged.
: The dataset is publicly available, thus consent for publication is not applicable for the study.
: The authors declare no competing interests.