Dharel, Sunita
Shrestha, Binjwala
Basel, Prem
Article History
Received: 23 June 2022
Accepted: 8 December 2022
First Online: 7 February 2023
Declarations
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: The analysis was based on publicly available MICS datasets (ExternalRef removed). The permission to access and use these datasets for this study purpose was obtained from UNICEF/MICS so no further ethical approval was necessary. The MICS survey was approved by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) as per the Statistical Act (1958) in September 2018 and followed national and international practice of volunteerism and confidentiality of research ethics and downloaded dataset and omitted any individual identifier. Ethical approval for the further analysis was obtained from the Institutional Review Committee (IRC) of the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
: Not Applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.