Article History
Received: 25 October 2021
Accepted: 27 June 2022
First Online: 19 July 2022
Declarations
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: We used secondary data from the NDHS 2016. The NDHS 2016 was approved by an ethical review board of Nepal Health Research Council, Nepal, and ICF Marco International, Maryland, USA. The Ministry of Health and Population (Nepal) oversaw the overall research process of the NDHS 2016. The NDHS data are publicly available for further analysis, and research participants were deidentified. Therefore, this study did not require ethical approval from respective institutions. However, the first author sought approval from DHS program to download and use the dataset for his doctoral thesis and this publication.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declared that they have no competing interests.