Article History
Received: 28 May 2018
Accepted: 12 April 2019
First Online: 3 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All participants were informed about the study and written informed consent was obtained before the interview. For participants who were 17 years or under, and thus were considered children, permission was obtained from the husband or mother-in-law with the initial approval from the participant and informed assent form signed by the participant. The consent procedure used is in line with national guidelines and was approved by the ethics committee. We secured anonymity and confidentiality by protecting the anonymised data in a password-secured computer. We obtained ethical approval from Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC) with reference number 2199. We informed the Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics (REK) in Norway about the study and the committee responded that the project did not require its approval (2015/940/REK). The Norwegian Social Science Data Services approved the storage of the data (Reference number 43981/3/AGL.
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