Magar, Anupama Ale
Puri, Mahesh C.
Karki, Sunita
Maharjan, Dev Chandra
Murro, Rachel
Foster, Diana Greene
Article History
Received: 5 March 2025
Accepted: 18 August 2025
First Online: 8 October 2025
Declarations
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: All the authors declared that this manuscript is original, has not been published before, and is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere. However, some of the findings were presented in the form of a poster at the 6th Asian Population Association (APA) Conference in 2024 in Nepal. All authors have approved the manuscript and agreed with its submission to the Journal- Archives of Public Health.
: This study received approval from the Institutional Review Boards of the University of California, San Francisco (18-258863), and the Nepal Health Research Council, in Nepal (Reg No 704/2018).
: All the authors of the manuscript consented for publication.
: The authors have declared no conflict of interest.