Bhandari, Buna https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0102-8844
Narasimhan, Padmanesan
Vaidya, Abhinav
Subedi, Madhusudan
Jayasuriya, Rohan
Article History
Received: 11 March 2020
Accepted: 26 July 2021
First Online: 9 August 2021
Declarations
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: Ethical approval for the study was obtained from Human Research Ethics Committee A of University of New South Wales, Australia (Ref no: HC17753) and Nepal Health Research Council (Reg no 21/2018). Informed written consent was taken from all participants of FGDs and IDIs. In case of illiterate participants, verbal consent, which was witnessed by their relatives, was obtained. The verbal consent procedure was approved from both (UNSW and NHRC) ethics committees. All participants were informed about the confidentiality of collected data.
: The participants gave consent for use of interview data in publications, including direct anonymized quotes from the interviews and focus group discussions.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.