Ghimire, Pramesh Raj http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2816-0463
Agho, Kingsley E.
Renzaho, Andre M. N.
Nisha, Monjura K.
Dibley, Michael
Raynes-Greenow, Camille
Article History
Received: 5 April 2018
Accepted: 1 March 2019
First Online: 11 March 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study is a secondary analysis of the NDHS data. The NDHS obtained ethical clearance from the Ethical Review Board of Nepal Health Research Council, Kathmandu and ICF Institutional Review Board, Maryland, USA. Data for this study are free to download and use by completing a request application via online DHS program (ExternalRef removed). The first author got permission from online DHS program to use data for this study. All four NDHS received informed consent from all the study participants, and the process for obtaining informed consent is also available from ExternalRef removed.
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