Tiwari, Ishwar http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1715-1457
Acharya, Kiran
Paudel, Yuba Raj
Sapkota, Bhim Prasad
Kafle, Ramesh Babu
Article History
Received: 3 July 2020
Accepted: 18 November 2020
First Online: 25 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The NDHS 2016 was reviewed by the ICF institutional review board. Plus, the survey also received ethical approval from the NHRC.We performed a secondary analysis of the NDHS 2016 datasets. The original survey (NDHS 2016) received informed consent from all the participants in the survey. Written informed consent for participants in the study was also obtained as per NHRC guidelines; data were publicly available and did not include individual identities and thus did not require ethics approval.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.