Ethical approval
Yenepoya University Ethics Committee, Mangaluru, India, approved the
study protocol (YUEC232/2016). We also obtained the necessary permission
from the Deputy Director, ICDS, Dakshina Kannada district, to get
the data from Anganwadi centres in the urban slums of Mangaluru.
We obtained informed written consent from all the study participants for
voluntary participation in the local language, Kannada .
Funding : The authors received no financial support for the
research, authorship, and/or
publication of this article.