Singh, Barun Kumar
Khatri, Resham B.
Sahani, Sanjeev Kumar
Khanal, Vishnu
Article History
Received: 2 July 2024
Accepted: 2 September 2024
First Online: 9 September 2024
Declarations
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: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The authors declare that the research was conducted without any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as potential conflicts of interest.
: Not applicable. We used publicly accessible, deidentified datasets from the Demographic and Health Survey program (). The survey received ethical approval from the ICF Institutional Review Board in the USA and the Nepal Health Research Council, Nepal. Mothers provided informed consent both for themselves and for their children. Given that this research involved only a secondary analysis of completely anonymised data, there was no need for additional ethical clearance. The author (BKS) received approval to access and utilize the deidentified data.