Dhoubhadel, Bhim Gopal https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5279-2044
Raya, Ganendra Bhakta
Shrestha, Dhruba
Shrestha, Raj Kumar
Dhungel, Yogendra
Suzuki, Motoi
Yasunami, Michio
Smith, Chris
Ariyoshi, Koya
Parry, Christopher M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17K16272)
Article History
Received: 29 March 2020
Accepted: 15 May 2020
First Online: 28 June 2020
Change Date: 22 September 2020
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approvals were obtained (Reg. no. 249/2016 and 08/2017) to conduct these surveys from Nepal Health Research Council, Kathmandu. Informed verbal consent was obtained from the parents of the children in the first survey. In the follow-up survey, we obtained informed written consent from the parents before their children were recruited for the study. Ethical approval was also obtained from TMGH; the approval number is NU-TMGH-123.
: Not applicable
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.