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Authors
Khanal, Gayatri
Shrestha, Niki
Adhikari, Kishor
Ghimire, Usha
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Provincial research Grant was provided from Nepal Health Research Council to conduct this study (139/2021 P, 139/2021 P, 139/2021 P, 139/2021 P)
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Article History
Received: 24 March 2023
Accepted: 20 June 2023
First Online: 26 July 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: All the research process in this study have been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki. The Nepal Health Research Council Ethical Review Committee was approached for ethical clearance to carry out this study. Ethical clearance (ERB protocol Registration No 139/2021P) was obtained for this study on 7th April 2021. A written permission for carrying out this study was taken from Education Development and Coordination Unit, Chitwan and the respective secondary schools. Verbal informed consent was obtained from the girls before starting the data collection. For those girls who were less than 18 years, informed consent was taken from the parents. The verbal informed consent procedure used in this paper was approved from the Nepal Health Research Council Ethical Review Committee. The data was kept confidential.
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