Pokharel, Rajani http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3131-6406
Bhattarai, Geeta
Shrestha, Namuna
Onta, Sharad
Article History
Received: 21 May 2018
Accepted: 23 October 2018
First Online: 6 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal. Informed consent was obtained from all of the participants before enrolling into the study. Oral informed consent was obtained instead of a written consent in order to ease the recruitment of participants. Illiterate participants when given a written consent were often anxious to get enrolled in the study. The institutional review board approved the use of an informed consent for this study.
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