Saurabh Kumar Gupta:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4671-9144
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
P.V.M. Lakshmi:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6921-9794
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole:
Writing – review & editing
Venkatesan Chakrapani:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-9135
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: SoftwareRole: ValidationRole:
Writing – review & editing
Ashu Rastogi:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9375-3102
Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole:
Writing – review & editing
Manmeet Kaur:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2450-3115
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole:
ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Vijayaprasad Gopichandran: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Title:
PLOS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
8
February
2024
Publication date Collection: 2024
Volume: 19
Issue: 2
Electronic Location Identifier: e0297132
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Post-Graduate Institute
of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
[2
]
Centre for Sexuality and Health Research and Policy (C-SHaRP), Chennai, India
[3
]
Department of Endocrinology, Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research,
Chandigarh, India
[4
]
HEAL Foundation, Chandigarh, India
Rural Women’s Social Education Centre, INDIA
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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PONE-D-23-21411
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297132
PMC ID: 10852243
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Indian Council of Medical Research – JRF/SRF Fellowship Scheme
Award ID: 3/1/3/JRF-2016/HRD-90
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4671-9144
Saurabh Kumar Gupta
The first (SKG) author was a recipient of Indian Council of Medical Research – JRF/SRF
Fellowship Scheme [No. 3/1/3/JRF-2016/HRD-90)] for pursuing his Ph.D.. However, The
ICMR-JRF/SRF scheme had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision
to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The authors did not receive any specific
funding for this work.
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Research Design
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Medical Conditions
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