We are grateful to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New
Delhi for the financial support for doing the study. We thank the
Director General ICMR, and also everyone in the division of Reproductive
Biology and Maternal Health Child Health, ICMR New Delhi, specially Ex
Chief, Dr. Malbika Roy, Dr. R. S. Sharma and Dr. Shalini Singh for all
the help and support. We are also grateful to Dr. R. B. Shrivastav and
others at ICMR headquarters. We thank the rural tribal women for the
cooperation in conducting the study. I am myself grateful to my
colleagues Dr. Suchi Jain, Dr. Naina Kumar, Dr. Ketki for all the help.
Thanks also to all the research assistants office staff for the
information collected and help in analysis of the data and
documentation.Disclosure of InterestsThere were no conflicts of interests, financial, personal, political,
intellectual or religious.Contribution to Authorship:Prof. S. Chhabra conceived of the presented idea, contributed to the
design and implementation of the research, to the analysis of the
results and to the writing of the manuscript.
Dr. Suman A. contributed to the final analysis and documentation of the
results.Details of Ethics ApprovalStudy was carried out after approval of ethics committee of the
Institutional Ethics Committee For Research on Human Subjects Ref. No.
MGIMS/IEC/ONGY/42/2013FundingFunding was provided by Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi,
India.