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Smith, Tim
Shively, Gerald https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0460-0762
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Funding for this research was provided by:
United States Agency for International Development
Purdue Policy Research Institute, Purdue University
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Article History
Received: 26 May 2018
Accepted: 24 March 2019
First Online: 5 April 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Procedures and questionnaires for the NDHS were approved by the Nepal Health Research Council, Nepal and by the ICF International Institutional Review Board (IRB) in Maryland, USA. The ICF International IRB ensured that the survey complied with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regulations for the protection of human subjects (45 CFR 46). The host country IRB ensured that the survey complied with laws and norms of Nepal. The NDHS obtained informed consent from the respondents, who were voluntary participants. Mothers provided consent of their children to provide the information.
: GS received permission from Measure DHS online to use, analyse, and publish results from the dataset.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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