Dulal, Sophiya
Prost, Audrey
Karki, Surendra
Merom, Dafna
Shrestha, Bhim Prasad
Bhandari, Bishnu
Manandhar, Dharma S.
Osrin, David
Costello, Anthony
Saville, Naomi M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
UBS Optimus Foundation
a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award (085417MA/Z/08/Z, 085417MA/Z/08/Z, 085417MA/Z/08/Z, 085417MA/Z/08/Z, 085417MA/Z/08/Z, 085417MA/Z/08/Z)
Article History
Received: 10 November 2021
Accepted: 4 July 2022
First Online: 10 September 2022
Declarations
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: Prior to the start of data collection, in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki on research involving human subjects, ethical approval was obtained for the use of verbal informed consent. Verbal informed consent was obtained from all participants, and both guardians and minors gave verbal informed consent when mothers were under 18 years of age. The ethics committee of the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (04PC01/2005) and the Nepal Health Research Council (269/2004) approved the verbal informed consent procedure. Additional ethical approval for this analysis was obtained from the Western Sydney University Human Research Ethics Committee (H13494) and the Nepal Health Research Council (822/2019 PhD).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.