Parajuli, Rajendra Prasad
Bhandari, Shristi
Ward, Lauren Marie
Suarez-Lopez, Jose Ricardo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Higher Education Reform Project (HERP) Research Grant, Nepal (HERP/DLI-7B)
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research KAKENHI (21KK0165)
Article History
Received: 27 June 2024
Accepted: 21 October 2024
First Online: 29 October 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The follow-up study protocol received approval from the ethics committees of the National Health Research Council (approval no. NHRC#198–2022) situated in Kathmandu, Nepal, and the University of Tokyo (approval no. 2022260NI-(1)). All procedures conducted in this study with human participants adhered to the principles of the Helsinki Declaration. Informed consent was obtained from all participants and their legal guardians.