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Received: 5 September 2018

Accepted: 13 May 2019

First Online: 31 May 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethical approval for the study was obtained from two Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics in Norway (REK Central Norway 2014/613 and REK Sør-Øst C 2014/146), the Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC Reg. no. 81/2014 and Reg. no. 08/2014), and the Institutional Review Committee of Kathmandu University (KUIRC 55/44). Verbal consent was chosen over written consent given women’s low literacy rates in Nepal [], and the ethic committees approved the verbal consent process. Participants completed the C-ACASI questionnaire in a private room. The study was publicly referred to as one on ‘women’s reproductive health’ rather than a study on DV. All participating women were provided with a brochure on ‘safe motherhood’, and an anonymous looking business card with the telephone number for a female psychosocial counsellor at the One Stop Crisis Management Centre (OCMC) at DH and the safehouse run by the Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) for participants at KMC.

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