Danovaro-Holliday, M. Carolina http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7324-9198
Rhoda, Dale A. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0948-1368
Lacoul, Mona
Prier, Mary L.
Gautam, Jhalak Sharma
Pokhrel, Tara Nath
Dixit, Sameer Mani
Rajbhandari, Rajesh Man
Bose, Anindya Sekhar
Article History
Received: 10 May 2021
Accepted: 22 December 2021
First Online: 3 February 2022
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Ethical committee of the Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC).All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations and in compliance with ethical and human rights standards.All the participants were informed about purpose, recruitment procedures, possible risks and benefits of the study and they were also informed about their rights of decision to participate and abstain from answering particular question/s. Study participants were made aware about confidentiality of their information and also voluntary and anonymity nature of the survey. Confidentiality and anonymity of the participants was maintained strictly. No persons < 16 years were interviewed. Informed consent was sought following these steps:Step 1: Interviewer read out and explained the purpose of the study from NHRC approved consent form in Nepali.Step 2: Interviewer and interviewee discussed and the interviewer clarified issues, if any. To be doubly sure, the interviewer asked the interviewee to explain back the same to interviewer.Step 3: Once the interviewer is convinced that the interviewee understood the purpose of the survey and interviewee has agreed to be interviewed, the interviewee was requested to sign the consent form (if literate) or thumb impression (if illiterate).Step 4: The interviewer also signed the form to attest that the consent form was administered with due process.Step 5: Interview started. If consent not given, interview stopped.These steps were included in the protocol approved by the ethical committee at NCHR.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.