Sherpa, Mingma Lhamu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5905-6127
Gupta, Chamma https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4276-707X
Bhutia, Yazum https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2712-0462
Lucksom, Pesona Grace https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3789-1949
Lal, Sunaina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4267-8181
Dutta, Sanjiba https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9957-2409
Pradhan, Anup https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8149-4759
Chettri, Mohnish N. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5515-8724
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Medical Research
Article History
Received: 11 March 2023
Accepted: 21 November 2023
First Online: 26 January 2024
Declarations
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research and ethical committees. The study was approved by the Institutional research and ethical board (Ref No. SMIMS/IRPEC 2018–146 & SMIMS/IEC/2018–98, and RPEC/132/14–86 & IEC/255/14–56).
: Written Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. The information sheet shared with each participant while consenting was both in English and local language (Nepali).