Face mask use in the city of Chennai, India: Results from three serial cross-sectional surveys, 2021

Murali Sharan; Manikandanesan Sakthivel; Polani Rubeshkumar; Ramya Nagarajan; Vettrichelvan Venkatasamy; Sendhilkumar Muthappan; Mohankumar Raju; Joshua Chadwick; Kalyani S.; Navaneeth S. Krishna; Mogan Kaviprawin; Pavan Kumar Gollapalli; Srinath Ramamurthy; Parasuraman Ganeshkumar; Murugesan Jagadeesan; Prabhdeep Kaur

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0297909

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Face mask use in the city of Chennai, India: Results from three serial cross-sectional surveys, 2021

Murali Sharan ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Murali Sharan, Manikandanesan Sakthivel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: sharanmurali@gmail.com

Affiliation Division of Noncommunicable Diseases, ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9062-2994

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Manikandanesan Sakthivel ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Murali Sharan, Manikandanesan Sakthivel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SafetyNet, Mumbai, India
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Polani Rubeshkumar,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Noncommunicable Diseases, ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Ramya Nagarajan,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Noncommunicable Diseases, ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Vettrichelvan Venkatasamy,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Noncommunicable Diseases, ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Sendhilkumar Muthappan,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Noncommunicable Diseases, ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Mohankumar Raju,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SafetyNet, Mumbai, India
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Joshua Chadwick,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Noncommunicable Diseases, ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8636-0634

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Kalyani S.,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SafetyNet, Mumbai, India
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Navaneeth S. Krishna,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Noncommunicable Diseases, ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Mogan Kaviprawin,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SafetyNet, Mumbai, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1659-059X

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Pavan Kumar Gollapalli,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SafetyNet, Mumbai, India
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Srinath Ramamurthy,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SafetyNet, Mumbai, India
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Parasuraman Ganeshkumar,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Noncommunicable Diseases, ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7466-7965

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Murugesan Jagadeesan,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Greater Chennai Corporation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Prabhdeep Kaur

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Noncommunicable Diseases, ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Face mask use in the city of Chennai, India: Results from three serial cross-sectional surveys, 2021

Murali Sharan,
Manikandanesan Sakthivel,
Polani Rubeshkumar,
Ramya Nagarajan,
Vettrichelvan Venkatasamy,
Sendhilkumar Muthappan,
Mohankumar Raju,
Joshua Chadwick,
Kalyani S.,
Navaneeth S. Krishna

Published: April 4, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297909

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